00:04Iranians formed human chains around key sites like this power plant in the city of Semnan,
00:09standing in defiance of U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to take out Iran's infrastructure
00:14and even end Iranian civilization if the country didn't make a peace deal.
00:21Similar scenes played out across Iran as a month-and-a-half war looked set for a major
00:26escalation. Then, suddenly, a flurry of social media posts saying the U.S. assault was off,
00:33for now. Diplomacy, spearheaded by Pakistan, has hit pause to attacks on civil infrastructure
00:39some legal experts warned would amount to war crimes. U.S. President Donald Trump says he's
00:44agreed to stop attacking Iran for two weeks in exchange for fully lifting its blockade on the
00:50Strait of Hormuz. That's a key conduit for the world's oil and gas, whose closure has sent prices
00:56soaring and left countries not involved in the fight, scrambling. Iran's state TV confirms talks
01:02are back on, but with reservations.
01:07These negotiations, with full distrust in the American counterpart, will begin in Islamabad on
01:13Friday, April 10th, and Iran will dedicate two weeks to these negotiations. This time can be
01:19extended with the agreement of both sides.
01:22The Prime Minister of Mediator Pakistan posts about the next steps. He says the ceasefire
01:28extends not just to Iran, but across the Middle East, where fighting has spread. And he's inviting
01:34Iran and the U.S. to send delegations to Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, on the 10th for further talks
01:40aimed at ending the war. In Iran's capital, Tehran, people in traffic waved Iranian flags from their car
01:48windows. Some are skeptical of the ceasefire. America has shown itself a hundred times till now.
01:56We have gone to the negotiation table twice, when it attacked us, and the ceasefire again for going
02:02and repowering itself. In the U.S., polls show a majority oppose the war. And protesters, including
02:12Trump critics, have gathered at anti-war rallies in places like here, in Washington, D.C. For some here,
02:18the two-week pause doesn't go far enough.
02:21The world cannot allow this crazy man to continue to be in power. He is a danger to all of
02:28us. Two weeks does nothing.
02:34The immediate region-wide ceasefire, meanwhile, has proven to be neither quite so immediate or as
02:40region-wide as promised. U.S. ally Israel, in the war since the beginning, has not commented on the
02:47ceasefire. And missiles continue to rain down on Israeli cities like Tel Aviv. Israel continues deadly
02:54strikes in neighboring Lebanon, like this attack on the city of Sidon that killed at least eight. This,
03:00too, will be a test for diplomats in Islamabad, as they try to bring weeks of fighting to a close.
03:06Leon Lien and John Van Trieste for Taiwan Plus
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