On Tuesday, Donald Trump announced that next night “the entire civilization” of Iran will perish. He previously threatened to destroy all bridges and power plants unless Iran concluded an agreement and did not open the Strait of Hormuz, through which much of the world's oil flowed before the war that began in February.
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Less than 90 minutes before Trump's ultimatum expires, i.e. 2 a.m. Polish time on Wednesday, A ceasefire was announced and will last for two weeks. He added that the truce would be “mutual” and the reason for his agreement “is the great progress in talks on long-term peace” with Iran. A senior White House official announced that Israel had also joined the ceasefire.
The US vice president was against it
During the meeting at which Donald Trump finally decided to go to war in February, only Vice President JD Vance was said to be opposed and vocally express his opposition. According to the New York Times, other Trump advisers who had doubts about the war limited themselves to presenting various options to the president.
JD Vance, who has long questioned US interventions abroadpublicly defended Trump's operation against Iran. Vance was 'skeptical', 'worried about success' and 'just plain opposed' war with Iranas reported by Politico, which previously referred to a text message from a high-ranking Trump administration official who asked to remain anonymous.
— His role is to present all possible scenarios to the president and the administration from many different perspectives, and, you know, he does that. But once the decision is made, he fully agrees with it, a second source told Politico.
