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The two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran, brokered through Pakistan’s mediation on April 8, 2026, is now entering its most critical and precarious phase.

Trump threatens to hit Iran infrastructure on Tuesday if Strait of Hormuz remains blocked

Talks held with 'very reasonable people', not Iran's new supreme leader, Trump clarifies

Escalation in US-Israel war on Iran deeply alarming.

But whether the current course of events will follow the course of 2020, cannot be said with certainty.

Many experts have argued that Iran’s greatest mistake was not to acquire nuclear weapons

Iran condemns Donald Trump as a “terrorist in a suit” after the US president threatened to hit 52 Iranian sites hard if Tehran attacks Americans or US assets in retaliation for the killing of military commander Qassem Soleimani.

US diplomats have warned that commercial airliners flying over the wider Persian Gulf faced a risk of being “misidentified” amid heightened tensions between the US and Iran.

The White House’s national security team last fall asked the Pentagon to provide it with options for striking Iran after a group of militants aligned with Tehran fired mortars into an area in Baghdad that is home to the US Embassy, a source familiar with the matter says.