US, Israel and Iran agree to a 2-week ceasefire but much remains unclear and some attacks continue

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a Pentagon briefing Wednesday that the U.S. would do "something like" last June's joint strikes with Israel on Iranian nuclear sites if the country refuses to surrender its enriched uranium voluntarily. Tehran insisted for years that its nuclear program was peaceful, although it enriched uranium up to 60% purity, a short, technical step from weapons-grade levels.
48% : Associated Press writers Edie Lederer at the United Nations, Natalie Melzer in Jerusalem, Abby Sewell and Sarah El Deeb in Beirut, Mike Catalini in Trenton, N.J., and Michelle L. Price, Aamer Madhani and Joshua Bloak in Washington contributed to this report.
44% : Airstrikes reported in the hours after the deal is announced Shortly after the ceasefire announcement, Bahrain, Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates all issued warnings about incoming missiles from Iran.
40% : Israel backed the U.S. ceasefire with Iran, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said early Wednesday that the deal does not cover fighting against Hezbollah. Israeli Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said Israel will continue to "utilize every operational opportunity" to strike Hezbollah.
39% : Israel said it would not, and strikes hit Beirut on Wednesday. --
37% : It also was unclear whether any other country agreed to this condition. -- Pakistan, which helped to mediate the deal, and others said fighting would pause in Lebanon, where Israel has launched a ground invasion against the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group.
37% : The fate of Iran's missile and nuclear programs -- the elimination of which were major objectives for the U.S. and Israel in going to war -- also remained unclear.
37% : In the streets of Tehran, pro-government demonstrators screamed: "Death to America, death to Israel, death to compromisers!"
36% : The U.S. and Israel said addressing those threats was a key justification for going to war.
35% : In Lebanon, where Israel is fighting Iran-backed Hezbollah militants, more than 1,500 people have been killed.
33% : Varying reports of ceasefire's terms Trump initially said Iran proposed a "workable" 10-point plan that could help end the war the U.S. launched with Israel on Feb. 28.
33% : In Gulf Arab states and the occupied West Bank, more than two dozen people have died, while 23 have been reported dead in Israel, and 13 U.S. service members have been killed.
25% : TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran, the United States and Israel agreed to a two-week ceasefire in an 11th-hour deal that headed off U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to unleash a bombing campaign to destroy Iranian civilization.
24% : An official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly, said the group would not stop firing at Israel unless Israel agreed to do the same.

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