{"id":840964,"date":"2026-08-03T02:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840964\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T02:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:26:10","slug":"australia-news-live-hanson-bars-media-outlets-from-melbourne-press-conference-over-character-assassination-attempts-government-to-provide-bird-flu-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840964\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: Hanson bars media outlets from Melbourne press conference over \u2018character assassination attempts\u2019; Government to provide bird flu update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cairo: President Donald Trump has said the US would hold off on a fresh attack on Iran as long as a deal could be reached quickly to halt Iran\u2019s nuclear ambitions and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said on his Truth Social platform on the weekend that Iran and other Middle Eastern countries had asked for time to complete a deal that would lead to \u201cthe Immediate, Complete and Total\u201d reopening of the vital strait and \u201can end to Iran\u2019s nuclear threat\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US President Donald Trump says he has agreed \u201cfor the future benefit of the WORLD\u201d to cancel an attack on Iran.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/e052ea8e78bafbd46426e5e9861417c5ba172774.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>US President Donald Trump says he has agreed \u201cfor the future benefit of the WORLD\u201d to cancel an attack on Iran.AP Photo\/Alex Brandon<\/p>\n<p>He did not name the countries in the post, which followed a call with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, a US ally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased 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,\u201d Trump wrote. Israel \u201cjoins me in this commitment\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cairo: President Donald Trump has said the US would hold off on a fresh attack on Iran as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-840964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840964","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=840964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}