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What Do We Know About The Iran-US Ceasefire

Iran and the US have agreed to a conditional two-week ceasefire, during which shipping traffic will be allowed through the Strait of Hormuz, attacks will cease and both sides will work towards a permeant solution to the conflict.  Pakistani Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, said on Wednesday that Iran and the US along with its allies had agreed to an “immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.”  He invited both sides to send delegations to Islamabad on Friday for negotiations towards a conclusive settlement.   “Both parties have displayed remarkable wisdom and understanding and have remained constructively engaged in furthering the cause of peace and stability,” he said in a post on X.  US President, Donald Trump, who had previously threatened to destroy Iran’s “civilization” upon the expiry of a Wednesday morning deadline told AFP the ceasefire represented a "total and complete victory” but would not confirm if the US would hold off its previous threats to destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure.  In a statement posted to truth social and published by the White House, Trump said the US would hold off it’s “destructive force” pending the opening of Strait of Hormuz.  “This will be a double-sided CEASEFIRE! The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all Military objectives and are very far along with a definitive agreement concerning Longterm PEACE with Iran, and PEACE in the Middle East,” he said.  Trump said the US had received a “10 point proposal” from Iran that was “workable” with all previous points of past “contention” agreed.  Iranian Foreign Minister, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, thanked Pakistan for its mediation efforts in a statement posted to X. Aragachi confirmed that Trump had accepted Iran’s 10-point proposal as a basis for future negotiations and said Iran’s armed forces would “cease their defensive operations,” to see negotiations through.  Aragachi also confirmed that Iran had received and was considering the US’s 15-point proposal and would allow ships to pass through the Hormuz straight pending “technical limitations.”  “For a period of two weeks, safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, will be possible via coordination with Iran’s Armed Forces,” he said in a statement published to X.  Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said his country supported the ceasefire but that the agreement did “not include ‌Lebanon” in a statement carried by Reuters. This revelation came despite the insistence by the Pakistani Prime Minister that it did and White House sources confirming to Reuters that Israel had agreed to the terms of the ceasefire. What are the proposals?   There is no official published version of wither the US 15 -point proposal or Iran’s 10-point proposal but the two proposals are likely to vary. However, Trump confirmed on Wednesday that Iran’s 10-point plan would form the basis of negotiations.  Iranian State Media reported that the points in the proposal included the Iranian regulation over the Strait of Hormuz, terminating attacks on Iran and its regional proxy forces, the withdrawal of US forces from the region, compensation, the lifting of sanctions and unfreezing of assets, and a binding UN resolution to secure any ultimate peace deal.  Iran’s embassy in India posted on X that the ten points included the continuation of Iran's control over the Strait of Hormuz, acceptance of enrichment and a cessation of hostilities on all fronts including Lebanon.  As for the US, according to CNN quoting two regional sources the 15-point US plan is believed to include: Iran committing to no nuclear weapons, handing over its highly enriched uranium, limits on Tehran’s defense capabilities, an end to regional proxy groups and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.  Iran had previously rejected the 15-point plan calling it “excessive, unrealistic and unreasonable.”