Trump’s ‘TACO’ Leaves Tensions Simmering Over the War With Iran (1)

April 8, 2026, 2:02 PM UTC

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.”

But amid celebrations of another “TACO Tuesday” from a president known ...

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