00:00Just 90 minutes before the deadline, U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to a two-week ceasefire in Iran
00:06on the condition that the Islamic Republic reopens the Strait of Hormuz.
00:11His announcement on Truth Social followed an earlier warning that the U.S. would target civilian infrastructure
00:17and a whole civilisation would die unless the warring countries reached an agreement.
00:22Just to clarify, in order for Iran to successfully meet your deadline tomorrow, do they have to make a deal,
00:29open the Strait or both?
00:31We have to have a deal that's acceptable to me and part of that deal is going to be we
00:37want free traffic of oil and everything else.
00:40Iranian civilians were filmed forming human chains around their infrastructure in response to the president's threats to escalate on April
00:487, 2026.
00:49Ali Reza Rahimi, Iran's deputy youth minister, told local media that the initiative was called
00:59In response to the threat, Pakistan urged the president to delay the deadline by a fortnight,
01:06which was agreed to by the U.S. president at the 11th hour.
01:24The Post went on to say that the U.S. had already achieved its military objectives in Iran,
01:29and a 10-point proposal received by Iran was a workable basis on which to negotiate.
01:40see you in on this series,
01:41and not on the busy day to interrupt,
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