{"id":3483,"date":"2026-07-08T08:59:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=3483"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:59:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:59:33","slug":"trump-says-interim-accord-to-end-war-is-over-after-iranian-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=3483","title":{"rendered":"Trump says interim accord to end war is &#8216;over&#8217; after Iranian strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">July 8 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump said an interim agreement to end the \u200cwar with Iran was &#8220;over&#8221; on Wednesday after \u200cTehran carried out new attacks on U.S. bases in the \u200bGulf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a flare-up of hostilities that pushed oil prices up to a two-week high, Iran said it had targeted U.S. military sites in Bahrain \u200cand Kuwait after \u2060U.S. forces struck Iranian targets in response to attacks on tankers in \u2060the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The attacks further undermined efforts to turn the interim ceasefire agreement that was \u200breached last \u200bmonth into a permanent \u200bpeace deal to \u200cend the war, which began with U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran on February 28.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-accent\/2 pb-5 md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<div class=\"py-2 text-center text-xs uppercase\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Asked before a NATO summit in Turkey whether the memorandum of understanding reached last month was over, Trump said: &#8220;It&#8217;s a \u200cvery interesting question. To me, \u200bI think it&#8217;s over. \u200bI don&#8217;t want \u200bto deal with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mb-4\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;They&#8217;re scum. They&#8217;re \u200csick people. They&#8217;re led by \u200bsick people,&#8221; \u200bhe told reporters in Ankara. &#8220;As far as I&#8217;m concerned, it&#8217;s just a waste of time \u200bdealing with \u200cthem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by a Reuters team in Tehran \u200band Reuters bureaux; Writing by Timothy Heritage, \u200bEditing by Alex Richardson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 8 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump said an interim agreement to end the \u200cwar with Iran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,7,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran","category-news","category-politics","category-us"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3485,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions\/3485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}