BREAKING Trump proclaims 'total and complete victory'. Who says he convinced Iran to come to the negotiating table

US President Donald Trump told AFP on Tuesday that the United States had achieved a “total and complete victory” by concluding a two-week ceasefire agreement with Iran, writes the French news agency.

“A total and complete win. 100 percent. There's no doubt about it,” President Trump said in a brief interview with AFP after the deal was announced.

The White House leader said the Iranian uranium issue would be “perfectly resolved” after a two-week ceasefire agreement with Tehran.

“It's going to be perfectly resolved, otherwise I wouldn't have accepted it,” Mr. Trump said in a telephone conversation when asked about what would happen to Iran's enriched uranium.

Trump also told the news agency that China helped bring Iran to the negotiating table to conclude a 14-day ceasefire agreement.

“That's what I heard,” Mr. Trump said in a telephone conversation when asked about Beijing's possible involvement in persuading its ally Tehran to negotiate a ceasefire.

During the night, Donald Trump announced that he agreed to suspend the bombing of Iran for two weeks, also responding favorably to the 14-day truce proposal formulated by Middle East mediators in the conflict with Tehran.

Truce 10 hours after apocalyptic threats

The decision was announced two hours before the deadline it had given Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, under the threat of devastating attacks on civilian infrastructure.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country supports US President Donald Trump's decision to suspend attacks against Iran for two weeks, but clarified that the truce does not include Lebanon, Israeli media reported on Wednesday, according to Reuters. The Pakistani prime minister had announced that the ceasefire would also include Lebanon.

Trump's announcement on social media was a sharp reversal from earlier in the day, when he issued a sweeping warning that “an entire civilization will perish tonight” if his demands were not met.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who helped broker the truce, said in a post on X that he had invited Iranian and American delegations to meet in Islamabad on Friday.

Condition for last minute agreement

Trump said the last-minute deal was conditional on Iran agreeing to lift the blockade on oil and gas supplies through the strait, which typically handles about a fifth of the world's oil shipments.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said in a statement that Tehran would stop counterattacks and ensure safe passage through the waterway.

“This is going to be a double-edged truce!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “The reason we are doing this is that we have already met and exceeded all military objectives, and we are very close to a definitive agreement on long-term PACE with Iran and PACE in the Middle East,” the US leader said.

Iran claimed the deal was a “victory” for Tehran

Iran's Supreme National Security Council presented the deal as a victory for the US, saying Trump had accepted Iran's terms for an end to hostilities.

In response, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said, “This is a victory for the United States that President Trump and our incredible military made possible.”

“Our military's success created maximum leverage, allowing President Trump and his team to engage in tough negotiations that have now created an opening for a diplomatic solution and long-term peace,” she said in a post on X.

A source briefed on the talks expressed concern over the two-week truce holding, saying the US side believed Iran might be trying to buy time. It was a “confidence building exercise”, the source told Reuters.

It was not clear from the start when the truce would fully take effect. Israeli media have reported that it will begin once Iran reopens the strait and that Israel expects Iranian attacks to continue in the meantime.

The order given by Iran's supreme leader, according to state media

About two hours after Trump's announcement, Iran's supreme leader ordered all military units to cease fire, according to a statement read on IRIB state television, according to CNN, as picked up by Iran International.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq said it would suspend operations in Iraq and across the region for two weeks.

More than an hour after Trump's announcement, the Israeli military said it had identified missiles fired from Iran, and explosions from the intercepted missiles could be heard in Tel Aviv.

Gulf countries including Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates also issued near-simultaneous alerts and activated air defenses.

Iran's 10-point plan, a 'viable basis' for negotiations

Trump said progress between the two sides led him to accept the ceasefire. He said Iran had presented a 10-point proposal that constituted a “viable basis” for negotiations and that a deal was expected to be “finalized and consummated” within the two-week period.

Markets heaved a sigh of relief and crude prices fell dramatically, marking the biggest one-day drop in oil prices since the 1991 Gulf War, according to Axios.

The global reference price of Brent crude oil futures reached around 93 dollars per barrel. However, it is still well above the level of around $73 reached just before the war broke out in late February.

World leaders also welcomed the ceasefire, with the Australian government saying “the longer the war drags on, the more significant the impact on the global economy and the greater the human cost.”