🇨🇳🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱The two-week ceasefire between Washington and Tehran was made possible not least thanks to the efforts of Beijing, reports Associated Press.

According to the publication, China, which is Iran's largest trading partner, "encouraged" the Iranian side to seek a ceasefire during the negotiations.

"China, which is Tehran's largest trading partner, encouraged the Iranians to find a way to a ceasefire as the negotiations progressed," writes AP, citing two officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.

According to the agency, Beijing acted through intermediaries - Pakistan, Turkey, and Egypt - to create conditions for a diplomatic breakthrough.

🇺🇸🇮🇷Trump: A great day for world peace! Iran wants this to happen, they've had enough! and so has everyone! The United States will help ease the traffic congestion in the Strait of Hormuz. There will be many positive actions! A lot of money will be made. Iran can start the reconstruction process. We will load all kinds of supplies, and we will stay 'in the neighborhood' to make sure everything goes well. I'm confident that it will go well. Just as we are seeing in the United States, this could be a golden era for the Middle East!!!

🇷🇺🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin: The real absolute losers are now the Gulf monarchies; humiliated, ridiculed, economically destroyed, despised by everyone, and pathethic.

🛢Oil prices have plummeted amid news of a ceasefire between the US and Iran.

At their lowest point, Brent quotes on the ICE exchange fell by 16.08% to $91.7 per barrel, before later rising to $95.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱"The risk of a resumption of war remains real"

Axios details the negotiations that led to an agreement on a two-week ceasefire in the US-Iran war.

According to the publication, the breakthrough in the negotiations on Iran was the supreme leader Khamenei's agreement to a truce with the US.

As sources of Axios report, for the first time since the beginning of the war, the country's leader instructed his negotiators to move towards an agreement.

The negotiations were conducted in a closed mode through intermediaries. A key role was played by Pakistan, as well as diplomats from Egypt and Turkey.

However, according to Axios, the Pentagon and the military in the region were expecting an order to start bombing Iran's infrastructure. One official admitted: "We didn't understand what would happen. It was madness".

Allies in the region were preparing for unprecedented retaliatory actions from Iran.

On Monday, the Americans received demands from Iran, which Whitcoff assessed as a "catastrophe".

However, the communication

On Tuesday, the parties actually reached an agreement on a two-week ceasefire. Despite Washington's harsh public statements, including the threat that "an entire civilization will perish tonight", the negotiations did not stop and continued to progress (Axios calls false the claims of a number of media that Iran withdrew from the negotiations).

However, by the time of the final decision, Trump began receiving calls and messages from "hawks" in his entourage urging him to reject the agreement. And a number of sources got the impression that Trump would reject the deal.

However, after a series of contacts with Israel and the Pakistani side, the agreement on a two-week ceasefire was approved by the US president.

A senior Israeli official told Axios that Israel received assurances that the US would seek Iran's renunciation of nuclear materials, the cessation of uranium enrichment, and the winding down of the ballistic program (note that Iran claims the exact opposite - that the US agreed not to demand this from Tehran).

At the same time, as Axios notes, there remain serious disagreements between the US and Iran, and the risk of a resumption of war remains quite real.

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