{"id":5503,"date":"2026-04-09T11:24:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:24:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:54:29","slug":"u-s-must-choose-ceasefire-or-continued-war-by-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/u-s-must-choose-ceasefire-or-continued-war-by-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. must choose ceasefire or continued war by Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. should decide whether it wants a ceasefire or continued war by Israel, Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated, warning that the U.S. violated a two-week truce by allowing Israel to massacre hundreds of civilians in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tehran &#8211; IranView24<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"pt-1 mt-3\">\n<div class=\"n-c4q897 prosed\"><span class=\"auto-dir-block\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIran\u2013U.S. ceasefire terms are clear and explicit: The U.S. must choose, ceasefire or continued war via Israel,\u201d Araghchi wrote on his X on Wednesday, adding, <\/span><span class=\"auto-dir-block\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt cannot have both.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"grid gap-y-1px mt-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pt-1 mt-3\">\n<div class=\"n-c4q897 prosed\"><span class=\"auto-dir-block\" dir=\"ltr\">The warning came after Israel\u2019s Army announced that it had carried out its largest attack across Lebanon since it started a new military operation in the country in early March.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"n-c4q897 prosed\"><span class=\"auto-dir-block\" dir=\"ltr\">Lebanon\u2019s Civil Defence announced that at least 254 people were killed and 1,165 others were wounded in the Zionist regime&#8217;s attacks on Wednesday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"n-c4q897 prosed\"><span class=\"auto-dir-block\" dir=\"ltr\">Earlier on Wednesday, the U.S. formally accepted Iran\u2019s 10-point proposal as the foundation for a ceasefire, conceding to every core demand put forward by Tehran.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"n-c4q897 prosed\"><span class=\"auto-dir-block\" dir=\"ltr\">One of the points of the proposal is cessation of attacks on all fronts, including in Lebanon.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"grid gap-y-1px mt-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pt-1 mt-3\">\n<div class=\"n-c4q897 prosed\"><span class=\"auto-dir-block\" dir=\"ltr\">The Iranian foreign minister also said the ceasefire accord reached through Pakistani mediation explicitly included Lebanon.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"n-c4q897 prosed\"><span class=\"auto-dir-block\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe world sees the massacres in Lebanon,\u201d he wrote.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"n-c4q897 prosed\"><span class=\"auto-dir-block\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe ball is in the U.S. court, and the world is watching whether it will act on its commitments,\u201d the ranking diplomat concluded.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. should decide whether it wants a ceasefire or continued war by Israel, Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated, warning that the U.S. violated a two-week truce by allowing Israel to massacre hundreds of civilians in Lebanon. Tehran &#8211; IranView24 \u201cIran\u2013U.S. ceasefire terms are clear and explicit: The U.S. must choose, ceasefire or continued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":5504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,39,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-foreign-policy","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5506,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions\/5506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}