{"id":39096,"date":"2026-07-08T15:38:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39096"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:38:06","slug":"us-iran-ceasefire-appears-to-collapse","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/us-iran-ceasefire-appears-to-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"US, Iran ceasefire appears to collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The fragile ceasefire between the United States (US) and Iran appears to have collapsed, with US President Donald Trump declaring the interim agreement &#8220;over&#8221; after Iran launched fresh attacks on American military bases in the Gulf.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe renewed escalation comes as Iran continues a week-long funeral procession for its late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali\u00a0Khamenei, whose body will be buried ton Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The ceasefire between Washington and Tehran appears to have\u00a0unravelled.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Trump says the interim agreement is &#8220;over&#8221;, following Iranian attacks on US military sites in Bahrain and Kuwait after fresh American strikes on Iranian targets.<\/p>\n<p>Even as tensions escalate, funeral preparations continue for Iran&#8217;s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali\u00a0Khamenei.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThousands of mourners have gathered in Iraq&#8217;s holy city of\u00a0Najaf, where his coffin was carried through the streets before the procession moves to\u00a0Karbala.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15849,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-39096","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Fragile ceasefire between US, Iran appears to have collapsed","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39097,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39096\/revisions\/39097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=39096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}