Trump's ceasefire with Iran - what’s in it and what next
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The Times
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🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
After mounting hostilities and Trump’s threats that ‘a whole civilization will die’ unless Iran backs down, Tehran and Washington have agreed to a two week ceasefire. Now, they’re discussing a ten-point plan to permanently end the war. But is this the end of the fighting or just a pause? What’s in the peace plan? And has this conflict taught Iran that it can hold the world to ransom?
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| 0:00.0 | From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. |
| 0:06.1 | I'm Manvine Rana. |
| 0:08.6 | We have a ceasefire in Iran. |
| 0:12.9 | Both the U.S. in Iran say they've agreed to a two-week ceasefire, as I've been saying. |
| 0:17.8 | President Donald Trump said he is suspending his latest deadline for Iran to strike a deal or face US military escalation. |
| 0:24.7 | But who blinked first? Both sides are claiming it as a victory. |
| 0:29.7 | I think everyone is agreeing that Iran has won the war. Because first of all, Iran did not surrender to American terms. |
| 0:37.3 | And it is the side that is providing the terms for discussion about the ceasefire. |
| 0:42.0 | What the president set out to do was decimate the Iranian military, |
| 0:46.2 | decimate their ability to wage conventional war. |
| 0:49.1 | And that military objective, as the president said yesterday, as I said yesterday, has been achieved. |
| 0:55.8 | So how was this ceasefire negotiated and can it last? |
| 1:01.0 | Does Iran's chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz now make it unassailable? |
| 1:06.4 | And what has this war meant for America's position in the world? |
| 1:20.4 | No. And what has this war meant for America's position in the world? The story today. |
| 1:22.7 | A ceasefire in Iran. |
| 1:25.0 | What happens next? |
| 1:34.2 | Thank you. in Iran. What happens next? My morning actually began last night because I am sad enough to not go to bed when something |
| 1:42.1 | like this is happening. |
| 1:50.2 | That's Catherine Philp, world affairs editor at the Times, speaking to us a few hours after the news broke. |
| 1:55.0 | And actually, I didn't have to stay awake as long as I thought I might, |
| 2:02.8 | because what I first saw was a flash coming up saying that Trump had agreed to this 10-point plan put forward by Iran and postponed the attacks. And that was obviously a huge relief. |
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