The path to the two-week ceasefire with Iran may have fundamentally altered the way the rest of the world views the US.

The provisional truce comes more than a month after the US and Israel launched coordinated attacks on Iran.

Attacks hit the southern suburbs of Beirut, southern Lebanon and the eastern Bekaa Valley hours after a US-Iran ceasefire was announced.

Crude prices tumbled by more than 15% on the conditional pause but remain far higher than before the war.

It follows similar moves in other European countries, including France and Spain.

The requirement to obtain permission had gone largely unnoticed until a German newspaper reported on it.