U.S. President Donald Trump says he will order American forces to hold off on new strikes against Iran, claiming Mideast allies have reached the parameters of a deal to end the five-month old war.
The emerging deal “would include the Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT, and an end to Iran’s nuclear threat,” Trump wrote in a Saturday evening social media post.
“Based on this request, I have agreed, for the future benefit of the WORLD and, likewise, the survival of a successful and prosperous Iran, to cancel the attack, subject to being able to rapidly make a DEAL,” Trump said.
Trump has announced halts to strikes in Iran on several occasions since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, only for things to unravel and fighting to resume again.
Iran’s defense minister said on X that the country was “neither surprised nor passive” following Trump’s announcement and said Iran continues to remain alert in the face of concrete threats from the U.S.
Newest proposal would bring sides back to negotiating table
A regional official says the proposal announced by Trump over the weekend calls for the U.S. and Iran to return to negotiations and continue working out many of the issues that have stymied prior progress on the deal.
The official, who is involved in the mediation efforts, said the proposal calls for reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and halting attacks across the region, including by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq on the Arab Gulf countries and Jordan.
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The U.S., in exchange, will end its naval blockade on Iran and allow Tehran to export its oil as stated in the tentative ceasefire deal, he said.
No deal has been reached yet, but mediation efforts are underway, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to talk to the media.
Trump said that Israel is joining his commitment to end the war by implementing the ceasefire deal. Israel did not publicly comment on the announcement.
Saudis concerned about Iran retaliation
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s de facto leader, spoke with Trump by phone Saturday and raised concerns about the U.S. potentially escalating the conflict with Iran, according to the Saudi press agency.
The Saudis, according to the person briefed on the substance of the call but not authorized to comment publicly, are concerned that Tehran could respond with attacks on the energy infrastructure of the kingdom and other Gulf countries. The call happened before Trump’s social media announcement, the person said.
The crown prince sought clarity from Trump on what potential new action he was weighing to take against Iran, the person said.
A White House official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and requested anonymity, confirmed the leaders spoke Saturday but did not offer any detail.
Iran has repeatedly attacked vessels attempting to transit through the Strait of Hormuz without its authorization as part of its ongoing conflict with the U.S.
Overnight Israeli strikes kill 8 in Gaza, including two children, health officials say
In developments elsewhere in the Middle East, Israeli strikes on Sunday across Gaza killed at least eight Palestinians, including two children, and wounded over a dozen others, according to local health officials. Palestinians reported an increase in the scale of Israeli strikes across the enclave over the past few days.
A strike on a residential apartment in southern Gaza killed three family members, including their 4-year-old child, according to Nasser hospital, where the bodies arrived.
Another strike, also on a residential apartment, in Gaza City killed three family members, including their child, and wounded others, according to health officials at the Shifa hospital. The mother was six months pregnant, the hospital added. In central Gaza, a man and his wife were killed in an Israeli strike, which wounded four other people in the area, according to the main hospital serving central Gaza.
The Israeli military said the overnight strikes had targeted Hamas military operatives, without elaborating.
At least 1,222 Palestinians, including at least 260 children, have been killed since the October ceasefire, according to Hamas-run Gaza’s Health Ministry. Five Israeli soldiers have been killed in that time. Both Hamas and Israel continue to trade accusations of violating the ceasefire.
Elsewhere in the region
The State Department issued new security alerts on Saturday urging U.S. citizens in the region to prepare for the possibility of flight cancellations, temporary airspace closures and other travel disruptions. The warnings covered Bahrain, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.
—Madhani reported from Washington. Toqa Ezzidin in Cairo, Melanie Lidman in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Natalie Melzer in Nahariya, Israel, contributed.
Again? Iran decides when it will end.
Blah, Blah, Blah…Yawn…wake me up when this idiot stops talking.
ISRAEL gonna destroy iran totally
ISRAEL gonna wipe Iran off planet
So does this mean that insane j*w b*stard will stop slaughtering?
I wonder how long this will last.
2 perhaps 3 days
Of course he did, that’s how he manipulates the markets
TACO. He’s the biggest lying president ever and cannot be trusted to honour any agreement that he ever makes with anyone.
So in other words, the crude market will relax a moment while the big investors double down again, and ride the stock market to another win when the ceasefire collapses. Pump and dump.
“A deal has been made” AGAIN Everything is a deal with this guy.No one believes your deals anymore Never talks or negotiations, an agreement ,discussions. always a deal because when you call it that “deals are made to broken” Hard to believe 2 guys like Hegseth and Donny are running this multi billion $ side show
Midterm voting upcoming… tactics.
He doesn’t know what either word means.
IN ENGLISH= THE AMERICAN MILITARY ARE RUNNING OUT OF MUNITIONS!!
Perimeters, parameters – he’s still plein de merde.
Actually, the word used by the orange numbskull was “perimeters”. Get your facts straight.
So Trump will finally honour his claim that he would end his blockade and quit attacking Iran. In return Iran will do as it promised and remove their closing of the strait. Iran was never going to produce nuclear weapons, so that red herring is just Trump’s imagination.
It look like the peace efforts that were announced earlier, that Israel would pull out of the Gaza province of Palestine, in return for Palestine taking over policing. For that, Hamas would disarm. – Israel broke the agreement before it really got started. Not surprising from a terrorist organization.
It was the greatest Peace ever achieved, two months ago.
Hopefully, they will pull the plug on me this week.
I have been stuck in limbo for 50 days waiting to pass tomorrow’s election deadline.
The pesky governor was asking for “proof of life” because nobody believes the AI generated proof of life photo’s that were released so they moved me to the Purgatory Clinic in China.
It is a great facility with a wonderful staff and many “happy endings”.
I heard that Mojtaba Khamenei is staying down the hall from me.
They say that RBG stayed in this room for a year before they pulled her plug.
I hope they do it me this week, I am really bored.
Another lie from the orange dough boy, to manipulate the markets. Can’t believe anything the moron has to say.
He thinks parameters are a couple of steaks
So a bunch of people not authorized to speak are saying that nothing is any different than last week. Did everyone else roll their eyes when reading this?
Oh, I thought Iran was obliterated for 35th time?
What Anonymous said
Trump.is a coward who lacks the necessary courage to eradicate the Iranian regime
Coming soon Trump will announce they have established the “Parameters of a Memorandum of Understanding” with Iran. After that collapses in a few weeks he will announce the “Concept of the Parameters of a Memorandum of Understanding”.
This is what president Taco does
on off on off on off…
no one pays attention to the orange make-up guy anymore.
For the umpteenth time Trump caves because the USA is boxed in and can’t win the war in Iran. A major bombing of Iran would cause huge blowback and the weak USA knows that.
Trump is exaggerating as usual, and doing all this to impact midterm polls as well as premarket speculation ahead of Monday’s open.