Iran's army says it stopped its retaliatory attacks after two nights without US strikes

Two nights. That is how long the United States has gone without announcing strikes on Iran, after nearly a fortnight in which US Central Command announced them nightly.

Iran's army put its own reading on the gap on Sunday. The spokesman, Amir Akraminia, was quoted by Iran International saying that Americans stopped their attacks over the past two nights, and that because Iranian strategy had been entirely retaliatory, Iran also stopped its retaliatory operations. The same remarks went further than the pause. Akraminia said US strategy was unclear even to American officials, pointing to Trump's public remarks and to what Central Command has done, and he warned that continued US strikes would expand a war he said had already reached the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

No document underpins this item. There is no US release announcing a halt, no Iranian written statement we could locate, and no joint text, so the sourcing is a named military spokesman quoted by a named outlet, and it is labelled that way rather than dressed up.

That absence is itself the condition of the story. A pause that nobody has committed to in writing is a pause that ends whenever one side decides it has.

What Akraminia describes is a mirror, not a truce. Iran stops because the United States stopped. Nothing in the quoted remarks binds either party for tonight.