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De Verenigde Staten, Israël en Iran hebben een staakt-het-vuren van twee weken aangekondigd. De partijen onderhandelen tijdens het bestand over een definitief akkoord. De landen maakten dat in de nacht van dinsdag op woensdag bekend, kort voordat Trumps deadline voor Iran zou aflopen.

Iran's Supreme National Security Council on Wednesday accepted a two-week ceasefire in its war against the US, but emphasized this did not mean an end to the war. The price of Bitcoin pushed past $72,000 for the first time in 20 days after the US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire. “I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks,” Trump said in a Truth Social post on Tuesday, hours before his deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face military attacks on key infrastructure.  Iran's Supreme National Security Council also said it accepted the ceasefire. Read more

Forțele armate europene își intensifică eforturile de a adopta combustibili alternativi, în contextul în care războiul din Iran scoate în evidență vulnerabilitățile majore ale lanțurilor de aprovizionare cu energie.

The 30-day simple moving average of the global network hashrate has also declined, though an analyst says the slump is due to Bitcoin prices hurting mining profitability rather than conflict. Iran’s hashrate has plummeted over the past quarter amid an ongoing conflict with the US and Israel, though the war itself has not dragged down global hashrate, according to a new report from Hashrate Index. Iran has lost roughly 7 exahashes per second (EH/s) quarter-over-quarter, said Ian Philpot, marketing director at Luxor Technology, in a report published Monday. The country’s hashrate now sits at about 2 EH/s according to the Hashrate Index heatmap. Philpot noted that while the regional conflict clearly impacted Iran, it could have triggered a ripple effect for neighboring countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Oman, yet so far, neither has been affected.   Read more

Risk assets rose late Tuesday as oil collapsed after Trump and Iran confirmed the two-week ceasefire.

Russian satellites have made detailed imagery surveys of military facilities to help Iran strike U.S. forces, according to a Ukrainian intel assessment.

ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar expressed regret on Tuesday that an attack by Israel on Iran set out events that “severely damaged the peace process” at a time when Washington and Tehran were close to coming to the table. His statement in the Senate came ahead of an 8pm ET deadline for April 8 that US President Donald Trump has given to Iran to enter a ceasefire agreement with Washington. Trump has warned of wider bombing on power plants and other critical infrastructure otherwise. Pakistan has positioned itself as a facilitator in the peace process between the two sides, leveraging its ties with the US and its working relationship with Iran. Addressing the Senate, Dar said Pakistan had been playing a proactive diplomatic role to reduce tensions, but recent developments had dealt a severe blow to peace efforts. “Just as both parties were close to sitting at the negotiating table, Israel attacked Iran, which led Iran to target oil installations in Saudi Arabia’s Jubail city. Thi...

Trump told Fox News that Iran and the U.S. were in 'heated negotiations' just hours before his 8 P.M. EST deadline for Iran expired, conditioning a halt on strikes against Iran's power infrastructure with Tehran opening the Strait of Hormuz

Bemiddelaar Pakistan heeft de Verenigde Staten en Iran gevraagd om een wapenstilstand van twee weken. Het land verzoekt Iran om in die periode de Straat van Hormuz te openen en vraagt de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump de deadline voor een akkoord te verlengen.

Bitcoin continued to hold near $68,000, a key long-term support level, this morning as traders waited for President Donald Trump’s latest deadline for Iran. The tension built after Trump said on Truth Social that “a whole civilization will die tonight” as his 8 P.M. Eastern deadline for a deal with Iran approached. The warning came […] The post Bitcoin clings to $68,000 as Trump’s final Iran deadline expires at 8 PM EST and oil screams higher appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris had been held by Iran since 2022 on spying charges, which France dismissed as unfounded. The pair were released from Evin Prison in November and have since remained at the French embassy

In de nacht van dinsdag op woensdag (02.00 uur Nederlandse tijd) zal de hel losbarsten, als Iran niet toegeeft, belooft Trump. Achter zijn dreigement schuilen ongemakkelijke vragen die hij zelf liever niet stelt: is het militaire vertoon juridisch eigenlijk wel geoorloofd, is het moreel te rechtvaardigen én kan het Amerikaanse leger het waarmaken om in een aanval honderden bruggen te vernietigen? Dit zeggen de experts.

“It almost seems like an afterthought and lower priority to the war planners,” said Jim Lamson, a former Iran analyst for the CIA of 23 years.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened that “a whole civilisation will die tonight” as Iran showed no sign of accepting his ultimatum to open the Strait of Hormuz. Trump had initially vowed to carry out the “complete demolition” of Iran’s critical infrastructure, particularly bridges and power plants, only if a deal was not reached. But writing on Truth Social, Trump elevated his ultimatum for Iran, stating that “a whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will”, if the country does not heed his call for a deal. It was not clear exactly what he meant or by what means he intended to carry out the threat. His remarks drew a strong reaction from politicos, with several calling for him be removed from office by invoking the 25th amendment, which allows for the vice president and a majority of the cabinet to declare a president unfit for office. Democratic Leader in the US Senate Chuck Schumer assailed Trump’s threats, branding him “...

Efforts to facilitate talks between the US and Iran are still ongoing, two Pakistani sources with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters on Tuesday, as US strikes on Iran intensified and US President Donald Trump’s deadline to unleash “hell” neared. One of the sources, a senior security official, said Iran’s overnight strike on Saudi Arabia’s industrial facilities linked to US firms threatened to derail the talks. If Saudi Arabia were to respond to the strikes, the talks would be over, the source said, adding that retaliation could also draw Pakistan into the conflict under its defence pact with Riyadh. The second source said Iran was “walking on thin ice” and that the next three to four hours were critical for the future of dialogue. Pakistan has been at the centre of negotiations between the US and Iran in recent weeks, acting as the main go-between for proposals shared by both sides, but there has been no sign of a compromise. “We are in touch with Iranians. They have lately shown flexibility that they ...

Bitcoin and risk-asset price action tried to brush off new US-Iran war rhetoric just hours before the deadline for a deal passed. Bitcoin (BTC) stayed near a key long-term trend line at Tuesday’s Wall Street open as markets waited for US-Iran war cues. Key points: Bitcoin and US stocks attempt to shrug off claims by US President Donald Trump that a “whole civilization will die” after his Iran deadline expires. Read more

Russia provided Iran with images of military facilities and critically important locations in 11 Middle Eastern countries, taken during at least 24 reconnaissance missions conducted by Russian satellites in the last ten days of March.

A gag order has been placed on the identities of the suspects and details of the investigation. In a separate case, police and the Shin Bet security service said that a 21-year-old Jerusalem resident is also suspected of spying for Iran

According to Reuters, Iran barred two Qatari tankers from entering the strait, even though their passage had been approved through Pakistani mediation. On Saturday, Israel killed at least five people in airstrikes targeting a major petrochemical complex in southwestern Iran, state media said

While the Israel-U.S. coalition is at war with Iran, the future of Gaza remains unclear. 'If there was some degree of international pressure before the war with Iran, now no one is paying attention and Israel is continuing on its course'