Trump requested Netanyahu slow Israeli strikes against targets in Lebanon: Report

Trump announced earlier this week that the United States and Tehran had agreed to a two-week ceasefire to advance ongoing peace talks on how to end the war. The president said the ceasefire was contingent on the immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to international commerce.

However, just four ships passed through the Strait in the first 24 hours of the ceasefire, compared to the more than 100 per day that traveled through those waters prior to the war’s opening on February 28.

Iranian officials said Thursday that “any peace in the region must include Lebanon.”

Trump had halted American strikes against targets in Iran, and he wrote in a statement on social media Thursday morning that “All U.S. Ships, Aircraft, and Military Personnel, with additional Ammunition, Weaponry, and anything else that is appropriate and necessary for the lethal prosecution and destruction of an already substantially degraded Enemy, will remain in place in, and around, Iran, until such time as the REAL AGREEMENT reached is fully complied with.”

US AND IRAN AGREE TO TWO-WEEK CEASEFIRE AFTER TRUMP ACCEPTS ‘WORKABLE’ 10-POINT PLAN

“If for any reason it is not, which is highly unlikely, then the “Shootin’ Starts,” bigger, and better, and stronger than anyone has ever seen before. It was agreed, a long time ago, and despite all of the fake rhetoric to the contrary – NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS and, the Strait of Hormuz WILL BE OPEN & SAFE,” he said. “In the meantime our great Military is Loading Up and Resting, looking forward, actually, to its next Conquest.”