Trump says Iran asked for ceasefire but won’t consider it until Hormuz reopens
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The news: Trump said on Truth Social that Iran’s “New Regime” president had asked the US for a ceasefire, adding Washington would not consider it until the Strait of Hormuz was fully reopened, as Iran said the waterway would reopen only on its own terms.
What they said: “Iran’s New Regime President, much less Radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors, has just asked the United States of America for a CEASEFIRE!,” the US president posted without clarifying exactly who he was referring to.
“We will consider when Hormuz Strait is open, free, and clear. Until then, we are blasting Iran into oblivion or, as they say, back to the Stone Ages!!!”
Trump’s comments came a day after Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said the country was not engaged in formal negotiations with the US.
Still in an interview with Reuters, Trump signalled the US would be “out of Iran pretty quickly,” after a day earlier suggesting at the Oval Office that the war would wrap up within two to three weeks, specifying reopening of Hormuz was a problem for other countries to deal with.
“If France or some other country wants to get oil or gas, you know go up through the Hormuz Strait, they’ll go right up there and they’ll be able to fend for themselves. I think it’ll be very safe, actually. But we have nothing to do with that. What happens with the strait, we’re not going to have anything to do with.”
Ebrahim Azizi, head of Iran’s parliamentary national security committee, addressed Trump directly in a post on X, saying the strait would “certainly be opened; but not for you!” adding “The 47-year era of hospitality is over.” Iran’s IRGC separately told state broadcaster IRIB the strait would not reopen at all based on what it called Trump’s demands.
The context: Meanwhile, Trump escalated his attacks on NATO in a Telegraph interview, saying he was “beyond reconsideration” on pulling the US out of the alliance after several European allies refused to join military operations in Iran.
Trump called NATO a “paper tiger,” adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin “knows that too,” and said allies’ participation in reopening Hormuz should have been “automatic.”
Speaking at a press conference in London on Wednesday morning, Starmer announced foreign secretary Yvette Cooper would later in the week host 35 countries to assess viable diplomatic and political measures to restore freedom of navigation through Hormuz, with military planners also convening to discuss how to keep it open once the fighting stopped.
Starmer, who reaffirmed Britain’s full commitment to NATO, was firm that the conflict was “not our war” and that the UK would not be drawn into it, saying: “Whatever the pressure on me and others, whatever the noise, I am going to act in Britain’s national interest.”
The sources: Donald Trump , The Financial Times , The New York Times, Bloomberg
