Iran<\/a> on Saturday and Sunday after the US military mounted a 13-night volley of escalating bombardments.<\/p>\nThere were also no reports of attacks by Iran on its Gulf neighbors.<\/p>\n
The silence is resuscitating hopes of\u00a0the two sides returning to the negotiation table with the war between them reaching the five-month mark on July 28.<\/p>\n
The US military did not announce any new strikes on Sunday but said that a “naval blockade against Iran remains in full effect.”<\/p>\n
It is not immediately known why the US is holding fire against Iran.<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump, on Thursday told US news-outlet Axios that he was mulling “a massive attack” on Iran which he described as being “bigger than ever before”.<\/p>\n
But he also says that talks with Iran are pressing ahead.<\/p>\n
“We’re talking to them right now. I think they’re getting more and more serious,” Trump told journalists on Friday, adding that Tehran faces a choice between a deal and strikes at a “much higher level”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The US President “has always been clear that his preference is diplomacy, but he has shown Iran what will happen \u200bif they fail to come to the table in a serious way,” Reuters quoted , a senior official in Trump’s administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Stockpile pressure?<\/p>\n
The lull in attacks also comes as US media reports concerns over depleting munitions in the expanding conflict.<\/p>\n
CNN cited a US official as saying that Vice President JD Vance and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff\u00a0 Dan Caine both raised concerns about the US defense stockpile with Trump during a White House meeting on Friday.<\/p>\n
The official told CNN that Washington\u2019s operations against Tehran were “on a hold.<\/p>\n
While the US and Iran are holding back, retaliatory strikes between Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi<\/a> rebels and Saudi Arabia have opened a new front in the Middle East war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"07\/26\/2026July 26, 2026Another silent night as US reports no attacks against Iran No US strikes were reported on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-785292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}