Ahead of peace talks in Pakistan, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, yet again, on April 9, 2026, accusing the US of violating the ceasefire. Tehran made it clear to Washington DC that war and ceasefire could not proceed simultaneously.

The Islamic Republic claimed that the US violated three key clauses of the 10-point ceasefire framework, threatening the stability of a truce announced on April 7, 2026. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, cited ongoing Israeli actions in Lebanon, a drone intrusion and challenges to uranium enrichment rights (of Tehran) as violations.

For his part, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said: “The Iran-US Ceasefire terms are clear and explicit: The US must choose – ceasefire or continued war via Israel. It cannot have both.” He added: “The world sees the massacres in Lebanon. The ball is in the US court, and the world is watching whether it will act on its commitments.“

US President Donald John Trump recently hinted that Washington DC might seek a joint venture with Tehran to safeguard the Strait of Hormuz, following his announcement of a two-week ceasefire. He stressed: “We are thinking of doing it as a joint venture. It is a way of securing it, also securing it from lots of other people.” When asked whether he would allow Iran to charge tolls for shipping to transit the strategic waterway, the President replied: “It is a beautiful thing.“

However, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz on the second day of the ceasefire, warning that it could resume hostilities as the Israeli forces intensified strikes in Lebanon (and Hezbollah responded by firing back). According to political analysts, the ceasefire deal between the US and Iran appears to be on the brink of collapse, with hostilities resuming in the Middle East.

It’s Time to Pull Off a Miracle!
(International Peace Coalition): Despite the two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran, the world still stands at the precipice of war crimes to destroy an entire civilisation, and possibly even nuclear war.

The global community would have to put the US Congress, the US President and civil society under pressure to stop the madness! The US need not be the enemy of humanity; it can and must return to the role its founding fathers set for it, to foster the sovereign development of every nation on Earth.

Chandra Muzaffar, the founder and President of the Malaysia-based International Movement for a Just World (JUST), has proposed that the level of danger are so great that all citizens be mobilised and activated to reach out to members of their nation’s Parliament and related political organisations to contact members of the US House of Representatives and Senate to take the required actions to stop the war – a power which does, in fact, lies within the power of the US Congress. He stressed that a similar call should be made to members of their nation’s military, active and retired, to contact members of the US military institutions in order to call on them to speak out against the war.

Such a move is urgently needed to stop the headlong rush to annihilation; but it will not eliminate the root causes of war. This will require replacing the threat to “destroy Iranian civilisation” with a policy of dialogue of civilisations and a concrete plan to achieve “peace through development” for the entire Southwest Asian region, through an Oasis Plan, as proposed by founder of the Schiller Institute Helga Zepp-LaRouche, to build a network of canals and water desalination plants, electricity and transportation projects, some of which have already been planned or begun, from North Africa, through Israel-Palestine, to the Gulf states, across to India, and north to the Caucuses, which turns the entire region into a zone of peaceful cooperation for a better future, instead of a zone of war and destruction.

If the US were to agree to permanently end this war and to this policy of peace through development instead, as it has in its better moments in history, the Oasis Plan in Southwest Asia could serve as a “phoenix arising from the ashes”, as Chas Freeman, the former US Undersecretary of Defence and former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, characterised it, instead of the world turning into ashes from a nuclear war.

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