NYT: Iran has accepted Pakistan’s 2-week truce proposal, faced pressure from China to do so

8 April 2026, 2:15 am

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Following US President Donald Trump’s announcement, the New York Times quotes three Iranian officials saying that Tehran has accepted Pakistan’s proposal for a two-week ceasefire in the US-Israel war with Iran.

The report says that alongside Pakistan’s push for a ceasefire, China intervened at the last minute “to show flexibility and defuse tensions,” while also noting concerns about the economic fallout if Trump went ahead with his threats of US strikes on Iranian energy sites and key infrastructure.

The Iranian officials cited in the report also say that new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei — who has yet to be seen publicly since being declared as his father’s successor — signed off on the truce.