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A temporary halt to fighting between the United States and Iran appeared to hold through Monday, creating room for diplomacy.
A ceasefire pause, in plain terms, means both sides have agreed to stop active military operations without a binding agreement in place.
That fragile window opened even as negotiations toward a lasting settlement ran into fresh obstacles over the weekend. What a pause actually means The word "pause" is doing a lot of work here.
A pause differs from a formal ceasefire, and a ceasefire differs from a peace treaty. A pause means shooting has stopped for now, informally, with no enforcement mechanism and no signed commitment.
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