US, Israel And Iran Agree To Two-Week Ceasefire

“It's hard to see how anyone else in the region could possibly agree to this,” US lawyer and political commentator Will Stancil said on Bluesky.

Stancil added that it would be“extremely funny if the gulf states that have funneled billions of dollars to Trump meet their ruin at his hand when he switches sides literally at the culmination of a war so he can pretend to have won, though. Maybe they'll bonesaw him in retaliation.”

In response to Trump's threats to take out Iran's bridges and power plants – clear war crimes – and more recent threat to wipe out the Middle Eastern country's“whole civilization,” human rights advocates and political leaders across the globe had called on governments and world bodies, including the United Nations, to“urgently intervene.”

While welcoming the ceasefire, some observers said Iran's severely repressive government – which killed thousands of its own people during recent protests – will not only survive, but be able to claim victory, as Iranian state media was already doing after the truce was announced.

“A ceasefire is welcome, but if the terms Iran announced tonight are accurate, the United States and Israel are facing a truly humiliating defeat,” Raed Jarrar, advocacy director at Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) told Common Dreams.

“They launched a catastrophic war of aggression that killed thousands of civilians, wasted tens of billions of dollars, and triggered the worst global energy crisis in half a century. Iran kept its enrichment. Iran took over the Strait [of Hormuz]. The United States agreed to lift sanctions and pay reparations.”

Some Democratic US lawmakers expressed skepticism over the deal, with Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut telling CNN that he doubts there is even any actual ceasefire in place amid reports of continued Iranian missile attacks on Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

“Who knows what's going on,” said Murphy.“Donald Trump lies every single day.”

Murphy pointed to Iran's claim“that Trump has also agreed to Iran's right to enrichment, to suspend all sanctions against Iran, and to allow Iran to keep their missile program, their drone program and their nuclear program.”

He added:“If, at the very least, this agreement gives Iran the right to control the strait that is cataclysmic for the world, and it is just stunning that that's where we have gotten to that Donald Trump took a military action that has apparently, at least for the time being, given Iran control over a critical waterway that they did not have control over, before the war began.”