{"id":798824,"date":"2026-08-02T06:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T06:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/798824\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T06:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T06:46:12","slug":"trump-holds-off-iran-strikes-after-middle-east-allies-outline-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/798824\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump holds off Iran strikes after Middle East allies outline deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/donald-trump?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> in a Saturday evening social media post claimed that Middle Eastern allies had reached the parameters of a deal to end the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/us-israel-war-iran?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iran war<\/a> and said that he would hold off on ordering new strikes in the five-month-old conflict for now.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump added that the emerging deal \u201cwould include the Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT, and an end to Iran\u2019s nuclear threat\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\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<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He said that Israel had 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<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An Iranian man waves the national flag in front of a large political hoarding at Valiasr Square in Tehran on Saturday. Photo: EPA\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6ab84854-2cde-47a2-9df9-43b1277ffdde_1f254890.jpg\" title=\"An Iranian man waves the national flag in front of a large political hoarding at Valiasr Square in Tehran on Saturday. Photo: EPA\"\/>An Iranian man waves the national flag in front of a large political hoarding at Valiasr Square in Tehran on Saturday. Photo: EPA<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Iran did not offer any immediate public reaction to Trump\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump in a Saturday evening social media post claimed that Middle Eastern allies had reached&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,60315,30732,12,249800,801,14945,803,29567,17153,339073,133,31737,155934,3,15581,15275,131,210369,153670,11636,21,19,22,20,25,6302,24,339072,2002,3123,89084,28833],"class_list":["post-798824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-axios","tag-bahrain","tag-donald-trump","tag-hormuz-strait","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-israel","tag-jordan","tag-karoline-leavitt","tag-khalid-bin-salman","tag-kuwait","tag-lebanon","tag-mohammed-bin-salman","tag-news","tag-oman","tag-qatar","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tehran","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-state-department","tag-usa","tag-vice-president-j-d-vance","tag-washington","tag-white-house","tag-white-house-press-secretary","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798824","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=798824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}