US President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks to reporters after arriving on the South Garden of the White Home in Washington, DC, on Might 15, 2026.
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President Donald Trump stated Monday he’s calling off a plan to assault Iran on Tuesday after the heads of three regional powers within the Center East requested him to “maintain off.”
Trump, in a Fact Social submit, stated he has knowledgeable U.S. army leaders “that we are going to NOT be doing the scheduled assault of Iran tomorrow” in mild of the requests from Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and United Arab Emirates President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
There had been no clear indication previous to Trump’s submit that the U.S. was making ready to strike Iran on Tuesday, formally scrapping its tattered ceasefire with Iran. Trump had informed the New York Submit in an interview earlier Monday that Iran is aware of “what is going on to be taking place quickly,” although he declined to offer particulars.
Trump was contemplating resuming lively army operations after Tehran’s newest response in ongoing negotiations over a deal to finish the warfare was deemed inadequate, Axios reported.
The president claimed in Monday’s submit that the three regional leaders had requested for the deliberate assault to be postponed “in that severe negotiations are actually going down, and that, of their opinion, as Nice Leaders and Allies, a Deal shall be made, which shall be very acceptable to the US of America, in addition to all International locations within the Center East, and past.”
“This Deal will embody, importantly, NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS FOR IRAN!” Trump wrote.
The president stated he informed Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine that whereas Tuesday’s assault is off, they need to “be ready to go ahead with a full, giant scale assault of Iran, on a second’s discover, within the occasion that a suitable Deal isn’t reached.”
Hegseth traveled to Kentucky on Monday to attend a political occasion with a Republican Home candidate difficult incumbent GOP Rep. Thomas Massie, whom Trump needs to kick out of Congress.
The U.S. and Iran are locked in a form of army and financial stalemate centered on the Strait of Hormuz, the very important world oil-shipping route that has been beset by dueling blockades amid the warfare, stopping most ships from passing by.
The battle to manage the strait has deeply frayed an already shaky ceasefire, which started almost six weeks earlier is nominally nonetheless in impact — although it has repeatedly been punctured by combating, and Trump final week stated it is on “life assist.”
