Trump Agrees to Two-Week Iran Cease-Fire
WSJ Minute Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:28.3 | among real estate professionals. Here's your morning brief for Wednesday, April 8th. I'm Daniel |
| 0:35.2 | Bach for the Wall Street Journal. President Trump says |
| 0:38.4 | he's agreed to suspend attacks on Iran for two weeks if Tehran immediately reopens the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 0:45.2 | Trump defended the ceasefire announcement, saying the U.S. had already met its military objectives, |
| 0:50.2 | and that progress had been made in negotiating a long-term peace deal with Iran. |
| 1:00.2 | U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegsef and General Dan Cain are set to hold a press briefing at 8 a.m. Eastern. |
| 1:05.3 | Republicans have stopped Democrats from flipping Marjorie Taylor Green's Georgia House seat. |
| 1:11.4 | Yesterday's special election in Georgia's 14th congressional district had been seen as a referendum on President Trump. Democrat Sean Harris managed to draw more support than Democrats in past races, but was |
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