President Trump says Iran’s new leader has asked for a ceasefire

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that Iran’s new leadership is requesting a ceasefire.

The President claimed that the ‘new regime president’ was ‘much less radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors’, without revealing with whom the US was negotiating, in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday morning.

“Iran’s New Regime President, much less Radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors, has just asked the United States of America for a CEASEFIRE!” Trump wrote in a social media post on Wednesday morning. “We will consider when Hormuz Strait is open, free, and clear. Until then, we are blasting Iran into oblivion or, as they say, back to the Stone Ages!!!”

Shortly after, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) branded Trump’s claims ‘nonsense’ and said that the Islamic regime would not be moved by his ‘absurd displays.’

On Tuesday, Trump estimated that the U.S. military campaign against Iran could continue for weeks.

“We’re finishing the job, and I think within maybe two weeks, maybe a couple of days longer, to do the job,” the president said.

Earlier in the week, Trump also struck a different tone, urging U.S. allies to become more involved in the conflict with Iran.

Trump also said he was considering pulling out of NATO and planned to express his ‘disgust’ with the alliance during a 9pm ET address to the nation on the Iran war. 

The Pentagon is giving Trump a range of military options, massing thousands of Marines and paratroopers on Tehran’s doorstep as America’s Arab allies urge the President to seize the opportunity to kill off the regime.