Trump says he’s postponing ‘scheduled attack of Iran
tomorrow’ at Middle East
leaders’ request
- President Donald Trump said he is calling off a plan
- to attack Iran on Tuesday after the heads of three
- regional powers in the Middle East asked him to
- “hold off.”
- Trump said he received 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.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs
- Chairman Gen. Dan Cain should still “be prepared
- to go forward with a full, large scale assault of Iran,
- on a moment’s notice, in the event that an acceptable
- Deal is not reached,” Trump said.
President Donald Trump said Monday he is calling off a plan to
attack Iran on Tuesday after the heads of three regional powers in the Middle East asked him to “hold off.”
Trump, in a Truth Social post, said he has informed U.S. milita
ry leaders “that we will NOT be doing the scheduled attack of
Iran tomorrow” in light 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 prior to Trump’s post that
the U.S. was preparing to strike Iran on Tuesday, officially
scrapping its tattered ceasefire with Iran. Trump had told the
New York Post in an interview earlier Monday that Iran knows
“what’s going to be happening soon,” though he declined to
provide details.
Trump was considering resuming active military operations
after Tehran’s latest response in ongoing negotiations over a
deal to end the war was deemed insufficient, Axios reported.
At a White House event Monday afternoon, Trump said, “we
were getting ready to do a very major attack tomorrow.”
“I put it off for a little while, hopefully maybe forever, but possibly for a little while” because “we’ve had very big discussions with Iran, and we’ll see what they amount to,” he said.
Trump said that he had been asked by multiple countries to
put off the impending attack on Iran “for two or three days, a
short period of time, because they think that they are getting
very close to making a deal.”
He added that if Iran is satisfied with a deal in which they do
not get a nuclear weapon, “we will be probably satisfied also.”
In Monday’s post, Trump claimed that the three regional
leaders had asked for the planned attack to be postponed
“in that serious negotiations are now taking place, and that,
in their opinion, as Great Leaders and Allies, a Deal will be
made, which will be very acceptable to the United States of
America, as well as all Countries in the Middle East, and
beyond.”
“This Deal will include, importantly, NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS
FOR IRAN!” Trump wrote.
The president said he told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine that while Tuesday’s attack is off, they should “be prepared to go forward with a full, large scale assault of Iran, on a moment’s notice, in the event that an acceptable Deal is not reached.”
Hegseth traveled to Kentucky on Monday to attend a political
event with a Republican House candidate challenging
incumbent GOP Rep. Thomas Massie, whom Trump wants
to kick out of Congress.
The U.S. and Iran are locked in a sort of military and economic
stalemate centered on the Strait of Hormuz, the vital global
oil-shipping route that has been beset by dueling blockades
amid the war, preventing most ships from passing through.
The battle to control the strait has deeply frayed an already
shaky ceasefire, which began nearly six weeks earlier is
nominally still in effect — though it has repeatedly been
punctured by fighting, and Trump last week said it’s on
“life support.”
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