{"id":429159,"date":"2026-04-01T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/trump-via-vance-told-iran-that-hes-open-to-ceasefire-if-hormuz-opened-report\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T22:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:00:08","slug":"trump-via-vance-told-iran-that-hes-open-to-ceasefire-if-hormuz-opened-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/trump-via-vance-told-iran-that-hes-open-to-ceasefire-if-hormuz-opened-report-429159\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump via Vance told Iran that he&#8217;s open to ceasefire if Hormuz opened &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Reuters is citing a source briefed on the matter:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The VP has been talking to &#8216;intermediaries&#8217; about the Iran conflict as recently as Tuesday<\/li>\n<li>Trump directed Vance to communicate privately that he is open to a ceasefire as long as certain US demands met including reopening Hormuz<\/li>\n<li>Vance delivered a &#8216;stern&#8217; message that Trump was impatient and warned of growing pressure on Iran&#8217;s infrastructure unless Iran makes a deal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The headlines continue to point to some kind of stalemate. Trump keeps saying Iran wants a ceasefire but this report indicates that it&#8217;s Trump that wants a ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>Separately (and probably not coincidentally), Axios reports that three US officials said discussions are taking place about a possible ceasefire with Iran in return for the reopening of the Hormuz strait. The officials said it is unclear if a deal can be reached.<\/p>\n<p>I think what&#8217;s overwhelmingly clear is that the US wants the war to end and is looking for a way to make that happen. They seemingly have Israel on board as well.<\/p>\n<p>Iran seems to be angling for more than a ceasefire and a lasting peace instead. That might be splitting hairs but it&#8217;s also not clear who is in charge of Iran and what their next moves might be. It&#8217;s also curious that the US is sailing another aircraft carrier into the region and has ground troops ready to invade.<\/p>\n<p>In all likelihood, Iran takes some kind of deal because leaders there have guns to their heads and they surely don&#8217;t want to risk the destruction of their energy industry. At the same time, it&#8217;s not clear what remaining offensive capabilities they have and their willingness to block Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it&#8217;s a pivotal moment and the market is clearly optimistic. We&#8217;ll see if that optimism is well placed or not by late Monday.<\/p>\n<p>This remains the deadline Trump set:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAs per Iranian Government request, please let this statement serve to<br \/>\nrepresent that I am pausing the period of Energy Plant destruction by 10<br \/>\n Days to Monday, April 6, 2026, at 8 P.M., Eastern Time.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>WTI crude oil is down $2.50 to $98.88 and the S&amp;P 500 is at a session high up 0.9%.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters is citing a source briefed on the matter: The VP has been talking to &#8216;intermediaries&#8217; about the Iran conflict as recently as Tuesday Trump directed Vance to communicate privately that he&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}