{"id":200998,"date":"2025-06-26T20:02:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/north-africa-egypt-welcomes-us-announced-ceasefire-between-iran-israel\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T20:02:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:02:45","slug":"north-africa-egypt-welcomes-us-announced-ceasefire-between-iran-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/north-africa-egypt-welcomes-us-announced-ceasefire-between-iran-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"North Africa: Egypt Welcomes US-Announced Ceasefire Between Iran, Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Egypt on Tuesday, June 24, 2025, welcomed the announcement by US President Donald Trump of a ceasefire between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Israel on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">In a statement, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry described the ceasefire as a &#8220;substantial development&#8221; towards containing the recent dangerous escalation in the region. It said the move could mark a turning point towards ending the military confrontation and restoring calm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Egypt said the development represented a genuine opportunity to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506260640.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt on Tuesday, June 24, 2025, welcomed the announcement by US President Donald Trump of a ceasefire between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Israel on Tuesday. In a statement, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry described the ceasefire as a &#8220;substantial development&#8221; towards containing the recent dangerous escalation in the region. It said the move could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":200999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,1509,4697,415,7539,2683,257,6732,254,51742,6132],"class_list":["post-200998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ceasefire","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-north","tag-south-africa-today","tag-usannounced","tag-welcomes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}