*Democrats Angry With Trump, Seek His Impeachment
*Israel Also Agrees To Temporary Ceasefire -CNN
There was immediate confusion over the real substance of the two-week ceasefire brokered by Pakistan, Tuesday, to temporarily halt hostilities in the US-Israel war with Iran.
While US President Donald Trump announced the ceasefire and called Iran’s 10-point ceasefire proposal “workable”, Tehran declared itself winner of the war as well as the peace negotiations, saying US had agreed that Iran manages the critical Hormuz Strait which will be “conditionally opened under Iranian military management” to international oil shipping traffic.
Even more interesting was Iran’s claim that US also consented to Tehran’s proposal to further enrich its uranium –a development which led to the war in the first place as such enrichment can lead to production of nuclear bombs with which Iran could obliterate Israel and America’s Gulf allies of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain and others, all of whom suffered Iranian damaging missile attacks during the war.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote that he had agreed to this “double sided CEASEFIRE” because the US has “already met and exceeded all Military objectives, and are very far along with a definitive Agreement concerning Longterm PEACE with Iran, and PEACE in the Middle East.”
He added: “We received a 10 point proposal from Iran, and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate.”
Trump said Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir had brokered the agreement, which he also noted is subject to Iran opening the strait of Hormuz.
Passage Through Strait of Hormuz Allowed For Two Weeks ‘Under Iranian Management’
However, Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, in his interpretation of the ‘agreement’, said passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be allowed for the next two weeks, but under Iranian military management.
Araqchi also said that Iran would halt its attacks, if attacks against it stop.
Trump has for weeks been demanding that Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz, through which up to a fifth of global oil transits through. The closure has sent energy prices rising, causing chaos for the world economy.
Also reacting to the deal, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said that the proposal included a condition that Iran would continue its enrichment of uranium.
The Security Council said that Iran had been victorious and claimed that the US had accepted all of Iran’s 10-point plan.
There has been no confirmation of that from the US side and Trump himself merely called the plan “workable.”
Democrats Call For Trump’s Head
However, Democratic senator Chris Murphy leapt on those comments from Iran, telling CNN “who knows if any of that is true, but if this agreement gives Iran the right to control the strait, that is cataclysmic for the world.”
Murphy said it does not appear the US has actually reached a ceasefire agreement with Iran, since both countries are sharing different terms of the agreement.
Murphy raised concerns about Iran’s explanation of the 10-point plan it shared with the US, which suggests the Strait of Hormuz would be regulated “under the coordination of the Armed Forces of Iran.”
Murphy added that the Iranian National Security Council claims “that Trump has also agreed to Iran’s right to enrichment, to suspend all sanctions against Iran, and to allow Iran to keep their missile program, their drone program and their nuclear program.”
“It is just stunning that that’s where we have gotten to, that Donald Trump took a military action that has apparently, at least for the time being, given Iran control over a critical waterway that they did not have control over, before the war began.
“What an era, what a miscalculation,” he added.
Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, called on Trump’s cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, which removes a President who is deemed unfit for office.
“Donald Trump’s instability is more clear and dangerous than ever,” Pelosi said. “If the Cabinet is not willing to invoke the 25th Amendment and restore sanity, Republicans must reconvene Congress to end this war.”
So far Tuesday, more than 20 Democratic members of Congress had called for Trump’s cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment.
CNN Reports That Israel Also Agrees To Temporary Ceasefire
The broadcaster quoted a senior White House official as saying “Israel has agreed to also suspend its bombing campaign while negotiations continue.”
