Iran Declares “Historic Defeat” of US: Claims Trump Accepted Iranian Control Over the Strait of Hormuz, Nuclear Enrichment, Sanctions Relief and Future Military Withdrawal from the Middle East

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From [HERE] and [MORE] The two-week suspension of combat announced between Washington and Tehran has immediately evolved into a geopolitical contest over narrative dominance, regional deterrence, and the future American military posture across the Middle East.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council declared that the United States had suffered an “undeniable, historic, and crushing defeat,” claiming Washington accepted negotiations based upon Tehran’s sweeping 10-point framework.

President Donald Trump simultaneously portrayed the same arrangement as evidence that Iran had finally retreated under American pressure after repeated threats of expanded strikes and harsher military escalation.

The radically different public interpretations matter because the negotiations beginning in Islamabad on April 10 will determine whether the region moves toward de-escalation or another far larger confrontation.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated that Tehran would suspend defensive operations for exactly two weeks only if every attack against Iranian territory immediately and completely ceased.

Araghchi also announced that safe maritime passage through the Strait of Hormuz would remain possible during the temporary pause, although movement would be coordinated directly through Iranian military authorities.

By thanking Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Pakistan’s military leadership, Araghchi elevated Islamabad from regional intermediary into the central diplomatic channel between Washington and Tehran. [MORE]