{"id":208,"date":"2026-04-23T09:56:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsline.lk\/?p=208"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:56:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:56:52","slug":"no-time-pressure-on-iran-ceasefire-says-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsline.lk\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No Time Pressure\u2019 on Iran Ceasefire, Says Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the US, Fox News says President Trump told presenter Martha MacCallum that there is \u2018\u2018no time pressure\u2019\u2018 on his extension to the ceasefire with Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to MacCallum, Trump told her in a phone call on Wednesday that he is \u2018\u2018not in a rush\u2019\u2018 to end the conflict and that he wanted a \u2018\u2018good deal\u2019\u2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also said on Wednesday that negotiations \u2018\u2018are ongoing\u2019\u2018, and Trump had \u2018\u2018made his red lines very clear\u2019\u2018 to the Iranians &#8211; demanding that they turn over enriched uranium in their possession to the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leavitt added that Washington was \u2018\u2018waiting to hear back from the Iranian regime\u2019\u2018, which she says \u2018\u2018cannot send a unified message yet, which is why the president decided to extend the ceasefire\u2019\u2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the US, Fox News says President Trump told presenter Martha MacCallum that there is \u2018\u2018no time pressure\u2019\u2018 on his extension to the ceasefire with Iran. According to MacCallum, Trump told her in a phone call on Wednesday that he is \u2018\u2018not in a rush\u2019\u2018 to end the conflict and that he wanted a \u2018\u2018good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[21],"class_list":{"0":"post-208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-politics","9":"tag-donald-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsline.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsline.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsline.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsline.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsline.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsline.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/newsline.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsline.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsline.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsline.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsline.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}