{"id":791018,"date":"2026-07-10T08:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T08:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/791018\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T08:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T08:53:09","slug":"us-politics-iran-conflict-live-updates-us-officials-on-true-state-of-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/791018\/","title":{"rendered":"US politics, Iran conflict live updates: US officials on true state of talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our live coverage of US politics and the conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>A US official has said Washington DC is using diplomacy \u201cfor now\u201d to calm tensions with Iran but vowed that could change if Tehran refuses to come back to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"poster-img\" src=\"https:\/\/content.api.news\/v3\/images\/bin\/4be68ab6b90eb19f8b7763eff0bae936\" data-sctrack=\"op-poster-img\" alt=\"Trump says 'Islamic Republic of Japan' shot missiles at US ship\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The official, who has not been named, told CNN the US was deliberately striking targets in Iran and then pausing to avoid escalation to \u201clet diplomacy work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It comes as chilling banners calling for the death of US President Donald Trump over the assassination of Iran\u2019s former supreme leader were on full display during Ayatollah Ali Khamenei\u2019s multi-day burial ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Iran and the US have traded blows after the pair resumed hostilities in The Gulf. <\/p>\n<p>Tehran targeted US bases not just on the Gulf coast but also further away in Jordan. It has accused the US of targeting a nuclear power station. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, reports have shed more light on why Mr Trump ditched the new Qatar donated super luxurious Air Force One when he left this week\u2019s NATO summit in Turkey. He instead opted to fly on the older model he had shunned. <\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump had said the new AF1 was going ahead of him to a base the US uses in the UK to show off the plane. But he also told reporters they were \u201con a dangerous plane\u201d due to threats from Iran. <\/p>\n<p>Read on for more updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to our live coverage of US politics and the conflict in the Middle East. A US official&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-791018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}