{"id":580108,"date":"2026-08-02T10:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T10:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/580108\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T10:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T10:09:08","slug":"trump-calls-off-threatened-new-iran-strikes-as-long-as-deal-is-agreed-rapidly-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/580108\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls off threatened new Iran strikes as long as deal is agreed \u2018rapidly\u2019 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

US president Donald Trump<\/a> said he had canceled threatened new strikes on Iran<\/a> \u2014 provided a deal was struck \u201crapidly\u201d with Tehran that included the \u201cImmediate, Complete, and Total\u201d opening of the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> and \u201can end to Iran\u2019s nuclear threat\u201d.<\/p>\n

In a post on social media late on Saturday, Trump said the US was \u201clocked and loaded and ready to go against the Islamic Republic of Iran\u201d but that he had agreed to requests by Iran and other Middle Eastern countries \u201cto hold off any attack in that the perimeters of a deal has been agreed to\u201d.<\/p>\n

He also claimed Israel had jointly committed to a pause in fighting.<\/p>\n

The Israeli government has not publicly confirmed its agreement.<\/p>\n

Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi spoke with counterparts in Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan as well as Britain and India, the ministry said in brief readouts of the calls. It said he told the first three countries that if the United States or Israel attacked, Iran\u2019s armed forces would react forcefully to defend itself and the United States would bear the consequences.<\/p>\n

Trump has been wrestling with how to proceed in the war with Iran, now in its sixth month. Weeks of strikes against Iranian military targets have failed to ensure safe passage for commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, the critical waterway for energy that Iran has effectively strangled.<\/p>\n

Last week, he set aside, at least temporarily, plans to sharply escalate the US military assault after military advisers warned that a big offensive could dangerously deplete the Pentagon\u2019s already diminished stockpile of Patriot antimissile interceptors and other air defense munitions.<\/p>\n

The prospect of a widening war in the Middle East, the vulnerability of key Gulf allies to Iranian attack and a global economic crunch also weighed on the president and his top aides.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, speaking on Friday from Camp David, Trump said the United States was weighing additional military action against Iran after days of escalating attacks across the region. \u201cWe\u2019ll be hitting them very hard, and you know at some point they\u2019re going to say, \u2018We just can\u2019t take it anymore,\u2019\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

The potential risk of escalation prompted security warnings from the state department. On Saturday, the US embassies in Jordan, Iraq and Israel urged Americans to consider departing the region, or to be prepared to leave if the conflict intensified.<\/p>\n

Two senior Iranian officials said Iran has devised a plan to use its proxy militias to escalate attacks on US allies and disrupt global markets if the United States intensified its assaults, in an effort to make the war as costly as possible for Trump. Last week, two gas tankers, including a US-owned vessel, caught fire after an apparent drone attack at an Egyptian port near the Suez Canal, and missiles flew toward a base housing US personnel in Jordan.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia carried out joint airstrikes with the United States against Iran-backed militias in Iraq, accusing them of attacking Saudi oil facilities Monday. Saudi government statements appeared to portray the strikes as a limited reaction to specific attacks, rather than an entry into the wider war waged by US and Israel against Iran.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared in The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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