{"id":232218,"date":"2026-08-02T05:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T05:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/232218\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T05:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T05:11:13","slug":"trump-holds-off-iran-strikes-after-middle-east-allies-outline-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/232218\/","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.europesays.com\/iran\/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":232219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[2747,270,38,1236,34,94,37,654,1772,65630,35,93,6415,181,271,50,101,69,272,153,1987,65629,1705,1537,28588,15324],"class_list":["post-232218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","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-oman","tag-qatar","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tehran","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-us","tag-us-state-department","tag-vice-president-j-d-vance","tag-washington","tag-white-house","tag-white-house-press-secretary","tag-world-war-ii"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117024200291659689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}