{"id":254665,"date":"2026-08-18T15:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/254665\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T15:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:57:12","slug":"no-one-knows-if-trump-and-iran-are-negotiating-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/254665\/","title":{"rendered":"No One Knows If Trump and Iran Are Negotiating Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">President Donald Trump took to Truth Social Tuesday to deliver an update on negotiations with Iran\u2014or lack thereof.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;There are no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled, with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Trump <a data-ylk=\"slk:wrote;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117116752164653735\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;The Naval Blockade remains in full force and effect. The Hormuz Strait is open and operating. All water mines have been removed or detonated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NewsNation&#8217;s Kellie Meyer pointed out that Trump had suggested the day before that his administration was still in talks with Iran. &#8220;This is what makes it difficult to convey to the American people \/ our viewers what&#8217;s going on here,&#8221; she <a data-ylk=\"slk:wrote on X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KellieMeyerNews\/status\/2089708813343449137?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Monday, Trump <a data-ylk=\"slk:urged;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/214401\/trump-bomb-shit-oman-iran-war\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">urged<\/a> Iran to wave the &#8220;white flag of surrender,&#8221; and threatened to &#8220;bomb the shit out of&#8221; Oman if they got in the way. Later, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that Iran was &#8220;not going to make the kind of a deal that I feel is necessary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Earlier this month, Trump <a data-ylk=\"slk:told;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/213899\/donald-trump-strait-hormuz-open-tomorrow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> reporters that he was in talks to reopen the Strait of Hormuz &#8220;literally by tomorrow.&#8221; Meanwhile, Iran denied speaking to the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Trump&#8217;s wildly conflicting statements come after the end of the 60-day ceasefire deadline established in the memorandum of understanding that was signed in June\u2014which Trump <a data-ylk=\"slk:scrapped;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/212816\/donald-trump-announces-iran-deal-over-strikes\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">scrapped<\/a> less than a month later. Recently, Trump&#8217;s own Cabinet members <a data-ylk=\"slk:aren&#039;t willing to back up;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/214355\/donald-trump-energy-secretary-fox-news-control-strait-hormuz\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">aren&#8217;t willing to back up<\/a> his claims that the U.S. has total control of the strait. Trump&#8217;s claims have been so erratic that his behavior has spurred speculation that his vacillating claims about peace deals are part of a mirage for <a data-ylk=\"slk:market manipulation;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/208887\/taco-trump-iran-dangerous-mirage\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">market manipulation<\/a>. Or maybe he&#8217;s just losing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump took to Truth Social Tuesday to deliver an update on negotiations with Iran\u2014or lack thereof.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[1236,34,70332,10060,864],"class_list":["post-254665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-hormuz-strait","tag-iran","tag-kellie-meyer","tag-naval-blockade","tag-president-donald-trump"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117117337026483354","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254665","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=254665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}