{"id":555992,"date":"2026-08-02T10:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T10:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/555992\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T10:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T10:20:14","slug":"trump-says-mideast-allies-reached-outlines-of-deal-to-end-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/555992\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Mideast allies reached outlines of deal to end Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump in a social media post claimed that Mideast allies have reached the parameters of a deal to end the Iran war and said that he would hold off on ordering new strikes in the five-month old conflict for now.<\/p>\n

Trump added that the emerging deal “would include the Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT, and an end to Iran\u2019s nuclear threat”.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

He said that Israel has agreed to join the US in the commitment to try to complete the agreement with Iran that would bring about an end to the war.<\/p>\n

Iran did not offer any immediate public reaction to Trump’s announcement.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the latest abrupt shift in the 5-month-old conflict<\/p>\n

The president’s announcement marked another remarkable turn in the conflict \u2014 only a day after he suggested to reporters that he was close to resuming heavy military strikes to force the regime to come to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n

The US and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, starting a war that Trump said was aimed at destroying Tehran\u2019s missile capabilities, preventing it from obtaining a nuclear weapon and ending its support for allied armed groups. But the stated goals and timelines for the conflict have repeatedly shifted.<\/p>\n

An interim agreement reached in mid-June halted the fighting and was supposed to pave the way for a permanent deal, but it crumbled within weeks as Iran resumed attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

The announcement came after Trump’s call with Saudi crown prince<\/p>\n

Earlier Saturday (local time), Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom\u2019s de facto leader, in a phone call with Trump raised concerns about the US potentially escalating the conflict with Iran, according to a person familiar with the leaders\u2019 discussion.<\/p>\n

\"President<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump stands with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on his visit to the White House, November 18, 2025, in Washington. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

The discussion, which was first reported on by the news outlet Axios, came as Trump weighed whether to carry out new strikes on Iran.<\/p>\n

The Saudis, according to the person briefed on the substance of the call but not authorised to comment publicly, are concerned that if the US targets Iran\u2019s energy infrastructure or carries out massive strikes on bridges or power plants that Tehran could respond by carrying out attacks on the kingdom\u2019s and other Gulf countries\u2019 energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n

The crown prince during Saturday\u2019s call sought clarity from Trump on what potential new action he\u2019s weighing to take against Iran, the person said.<\/p>\n

A White House official, who was not authorised to comment publicly and requested anonymity, confirmed the leaders spoke on Saturday but did not offer any detail about their conversation.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia earlier this week joined the US in striking multiple logistics and weapons sites used by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, but has been urging the US and Iran to get back to the negotiating table to find an endgame to the conflict.<\/p>\n

The crown prince also dispatched his brother, Saudi Defence Minister Khalid bin Salman, to Washington on Wednesday for separate meetings with Trump and Vice President JD Vance to discuss Iran strategy.<\/p>\n

\"President<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump listens as Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, December 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

And Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday (local time) at the White House, their first in-person meeting<\/a> since launching the war in February. The Israeli leader has urged Trump to continue to prosecute the war against Iran.<\/p>\n

The war is unpopular, and November midterms are looming<\/p>\n

The stakes for continued US military action are high for Trump and his party as the conflict, unpopular among many Americans, has jolted the world economy just months before critical midterm elections in November.<\/p>\n

The president had vowed to take retaliatory action after the US military thwarted a surprise attack earlier this week by Iran on a US base in Jordan.<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump on Friday displayed his growing frustration with the conflict, telling reporters that “we just want to win” in Iran and that the US will hit Iran “very hard” until they can\u2019t take it anymore. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt echoed the president, noting that Tehran last month signed a memorandum of understanding with the US on a truce but then quickly “broke it, shot at commercial ships, and killed American soldiers”.<\/p>\n

US officials were on edge ahead of Trump’s Saturday evening statement. And Trump himself in his social media post said that the US military was “locked and loaded” and prepared to display “levels of Military Terror, Strength, and Power not seen since World War II”.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, the US State Department issued new security alerts for Americans in 10 countries in the region to exercise heightened caution due to the escalating tensions with Iran.<\/p>\n

The warnings \u2014 covering Bahrain, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates \u2014 urged US citizens to prepare for the possibility of flight cancellations, temporary airspace closures and other travel disruptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump in a social media post claimed that Mideast allies have reached the parameters of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[65,42,5107,43,64,40,38,41,39,66],"class_list":["post-555992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-north-america","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}