The U.S.-Iran Cease-Fire Is Being Tested

Advertisement

SKIP ADVERTISEMENT

You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.

Newsletter

The Evening

The U.S.-Iran Cease-Fire Is Being Tested

Also, a Times investigation seeks to unmask Bitcoin’s creator. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.

Share full article

A pro-government demonstration in Tehran today.

Credit...

Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times

By

Matthew Cullen

April 8, 2026,

5:46 p.m. ET

See more of our coverage in your search results.

Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de búsqueda.

Add The New York Times on Google

Agrega The New York Times en Google

Less than 24 hours after President Trump announced a deal to pause the war with Iran and allow two weeks for peace negotiations,

significant questions about the truce emerged

.

Israel bombarded Lebanon, claiming that attacks on the Iran-backed group Hezbollah were

not part of the cease-fire deal

. In response, the speaker of Iran’s parliament accused the U.S. of not upholding its end of the deal, pointing to the Israeli attacks and a hostile drone in Iranian airspace.

Iran, too, continued its attacks on its Persian Gulf neighbors. The prime minister of Pakistan, who played a crucial role in brokering the truce, said that the violations “undermine the spirit” of the peace process. There was additional uncertainty about the Strait of Hormuz: Opening the waterway was a core American demand, but

traffic seemed to remain throttled today

.

The White House suggested that it was determined to declare victory and plow ahead. Officials said that Vice President JD Vance would travel to Pakistan for peace talks beginning Saturday. U.S. military leaders said they were ready to resume fighting if ordered, but doing so

would come with significant political risks for Trump

, our White House reporter David Sanger writes.

Iran released

a 10-point plan

that it described as its framework for negotiations, but White House officials said the demands did not match the private plans that Trump appeared open to discussing. One major unresolved topic is

Iran’s highly enriched uranium

. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth demanded Iran turn it over, “or we’ll take it out.”

For more:

When Trump launched the war, he pledged to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, destroy its missile capability, break its regional proxies and create an opening for regime change.

For now, none of those goals has clearly been accomplished

.

The war did, however, wipe out much of Iran’s old leadership and

push up a new generation

.

Oil prices fell sharply today, but it

could still take awhile

for the region’s oil to flow and for

gasoline prices to fall back down

.

Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and

log into

your Times account, or

subscribe

for all of The Times.

Thank you for your patience while we verify access.

Already a subscriber?

Log in

.

Want all of The Times?

Subscribe

.

Related Content

Advertisement

SKIP ADVERTISEMENT