Status of Two-Week Ceasefire Between Iran, Israel, and United States

A tentative ceasefire between Iran, Israel, and the United States took effect on Wednesday. The agreement, lasting two weeks, follows a war that began on February 28. U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian targets, including the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the first day.

U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested a regime change in Iran after the strikes, which also killed several top officials and military leaders. However, Ayatollah Khamenei's son, Mojtaba Khamenei, succeeded him as Supreme Leader.

Mojtaba Khamenei, aged 55, is aligned with Iran's Revolutionary Guard and has not appeared publicly since reportedly being wounded in the strike that killed his father. Iran's political structure, centered on maintaining a Shiite theocracy, remains in place. Mass protests occurred in January but were suppressed by authorities before the war began.

No further uprisings have been reported since the conflict started.

retains its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, stored at enrichment sites bombed by the U.S. during a prior 12-day war in June. Iran has not enriched uranium since that conflict and maintains it has the right to do so for peaceful purposes, while denying pursuit of nuclear weapons.

U.S. and Israel have called for complete dismantlement of Iran's nuclear program, which Iran rejected in its 10-point peace proposal.

“The U.S. would work with Iran to dig up and remove" the uranium.”

Since February 28, Iran has launched more than 5,000 drones, over 2,100 ballistic missiles, and over 50 cruise missiles, according to the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA), a Washington-based organization with ties to the Israeli military.