
President Donald Trump ahead of his prime-time address from the White House on April 1.
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The Big Take
Donald Trump’s ‘TACO’ Leaves Tensions Simmering Over the War in Iran
US President Donald Trump has two weeks to figure out whether he’s untangled the knot he created in Iran, or just pulled it tighter.
Trump’s announcement Tuesday that he was accepting a proposal for a two-week ceasefire in Iran was met by relief in global capitals and jubilation in financial markets. Worries are quelled — for now — about whether he’d push forward with attacks on civilian infrastructure and plunge the region further into conflict with a bombing campaign Trump has likened to returning Iran to the “stone ages.”