The US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire on Tuesday evening, not long after President Trump had warned Iran that “a civilisation will die tonight”. Perhaps this belligerent rhetoric was effective, or perhaps not. In any event, the bombing stopped – or at least most of it – on Tuesday evening as a fragile two-week ceasefire was agreed and started. US and Iranian delegations are in Islamabad this weekend negotiating what will hopefully be a permanent solution to this c
