Donald Trump<\/a> has extended by 10 days a pause on threatened strikes against Iran<\/a>\u2019s energy facilities, saying the move came at Tehran<\/a>\u2019s request as talks to end the war were \u201cgoing very well.\u201d<\/p>\n The US president had given Tehran a deadline of Friday to enter negotiations to end the war<\/a> or face the “total destruction” of its energy facilities.<\/p>\n But in a post on Truth Social<\/a>, Mr Trump said the deadline would now be extended until 6 April, giving both sides more time to negotiate. “Talks are ongoing and, despite erroneous statements to the contrary by the Fake News Media, and others, they are going very well,” Mr Trump posted.<\/p>\n Tehran has denied any direct talks are happening.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Pentagon was considering sending another 10,000 troops to the Middle East. The potential deployment would probably include infantry and armored vehicles, according to the WSJ. Thousands of US troops have reportedly already been dispatched to the region.<\/p>\n The Trump administration is reportedly considering capturing Iran\u2019s main oil hub, Kharg Island, to pressure the country to open the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, a waterway that carries about a fifth of the world\u2019s oil. <\/p>\n <\/a>Iran fires missiles at UAE and Kuwait<\/p>\n Kuwait this morning said it shot down Iranian drones in an attack targeting the small, oil-rich nation.<\/p>\n The United Arab Emirates sounded a missile alert over Dubai around the same time, though there was no sound of an interception heard in the city-state as rain blanketed it. <\/p>\n Alisha Rahaman Sarkar27 March 2026 04:24<\/p>\n <\/a>Trump says peace talks with Iran ‘going very well’<\/p>\n Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff told a cabinet meeting earlier there were “strong signs” that Tehran was ready to negotiate, confirming publicly for the first time that Washington had passed a 15-point “action list” to Tehran through Pakistani officials.<\/p>\n “We will see where things lead, and if we can convince Iran that this is the inflection point with no good alternatives for them, other than more death and destruction,” Mr Witkoff said.<\/p>\n The US president yesterday pushed back his deadline for strikes on Iran’s energy assets to 6 April, saying the move came following a request from Tehran and that talks on ending the war were “going very well”.<\/p>\n “As per Iranian Government request… I am pausing the period of Energy Plant destruction by 10 Days to Monday, April 6, 2026, at 8 P.M., Eastern Time,” he posted. <\/p>\n Alisha Rahaman Sarkar27 March 2026 04:21<\/p>\n <\/a>Iran sends letter to UN over reported death threats against Araghchi<\/p>\n Iran has sent a letter to the UN over claims that the country\u2019s foreign minister and parliament speaker had been \u201ctargets for assassination”.<\/p>\n The letter, dated Thursday and signed by ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani, focused on media reports that foreign minister Abbas Araghchi and speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf both had been spared for the time being by Israel and the US as negotiations to reach a ceasefire in the war go on.<\/p>\n \u201cThe reports indicate the existence of an operational framework contemplating the assassination of the highest-ranking political officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran,\u201d the letter read.<\/p>\n It added that \u201cthe conditional nature of the purported \u2018suspension\u2019 further underscores that the threat remains real, deliberate and ongoing\u201d.The letter called any such programme \u201cstate-sponsored terrorism”. <\/p>\n Alisha Rahaman Sarkar27 March 2026 04:20<\/p>\n <\/a>CENTCOM shares photos of military equipment in ‘Operation Epic Fury’<\/p>\n US Central Command has shared photos of equipment used in its military campaign against Iran, which it has dubbed \u201cOperation Epic Fury\u201d.<\/p>\n Rachel Dobkin27 March 2026 04:00<\/p>\n <\/a>US senator thinks Trump is leaning toward putting boots on the ground in Iran<\/p>\n US Senator Richard Blumenthal has said he thinks President Donald Trump is leaning toward putting boots on the ground in Iran.<\/p>\n “I would say the dynamic is toward troops on the ground because the President of United States never sends armed forces to a region without some plan to use them\u201d, the Connecticut Democrat told CNN.<\/p>\n The Pentagon is considering sending another 10,000 troops to the Middle East, The Wall Street Journal<\/a> has reported, on top of the thousands of service members that have reportedly already been dispatched to the region.<\/p>\n Rachel Dobkin27 March 2026 03:45<\/p>\n <\/a>Oil prices fall to $107 per barrel in early trade<\/p>\n Oil prices fell in early trade this morning after US president Donald Trump said talks with Iran to end the war were going “very well” \u200band announced he would pause attacks on the country’s energy plants for 10 days.<\/p>\n Brent \u200cfutures fell 90 cents, or 0.8%, to $107.11 per barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate futures lost 83 cents, or 0.88 per cent, to $93.65 per barrel.<\/p>\n The fall also comes after Mr Trump said Iran allowed 10 oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz this week as a \u201cpresent\u201d to the US. <\/p>\n Alisha Rahaman Sarkar27 March 2026 03:38<\/p>\n <\/a>Rubio calls Iraqi Kurdish leader<\/p>\n US secretary of state Marco Rubio spoke with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) prime minister Masrour Barzani, the state department said, adding \u2060he expressed “gratitude” to KRG for enabling oil from Iraq, including from Iraq’s Kurdistan, to reach global markets.<\/p>\n The Iran war has raised \u2060oil prices and shaken global markets.<\/p>\n The state department said Mr \u200bRubio “offered \u2060his condolences to the families \u200cof the Peshmerga killed in an Iranian missile attack on 24 March and wished a speedy recovery to \u200cthose injured.”<\/p>\n At least six Kurdish Peshmerga fighters \u200cwere killed and 30 wounded in a rocket attack on their base north of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, a Peshmerga statement said \u2060on Tuesday. <\/p>\n Alisha Rahaman Sarkar27 March 2026 03:36<\/p>\n <\/a>Former US congressman and Army veteran reacts to Trump droning on about pens amid Iran war<\/p>\n Patrick Murphy, a former democratic US congressman and Army veteran, has reacted to President Donald Trump droning on about pens during a Cabinet meeting Thursday as the country is at war against Iran. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s infuriating for those of us who wear the cloth of our country\u2026are you really going to spend five minutes talking about a damn pen?\u201d Murphy told CNN. <\/p>\n Watch Trump\u2019s ramblings about pens here:<\/p>\n Donald Trump spent two minutes ranting about pens whilst attacking Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell. Speaking during a cabinet meeting on Thursday (26 March), the US president criticised the Federal Reserve\u2019s renovation project, which Trump claimed had ballooned to over $3 billion. He said that he believes he could have done the whole project for $25 million. He then launched into an analogy involving pens, where he picked up an \u201cinexpensive\u201d pen which \u201cwrites well\u201d. Mr Trump then explained that when he arrived at the White House, he was given many expensive \u201cgorgeous\u201d pens to use. However, he said that the fancier pens did not write well. \u201dI’m signing and there’s no ink in the pen and it costs a thousand dollars.\u201d He later further explained his comparison, stating: \u201cI just saw the pen sitting there and thought this was an example of how $25 million spent by me at the Federal Reserve building would be a better job than $4 billion that they\u2019re spending.\u201d<\/p>\n Rachel Dobkin27 March 2026 03:30<\/p>\n <\/a>MAGA figure says ground invasion of Iran will make US ‘poorer and less safe’<\/p>\n Matt Gaetz, former Florida congressman turned One America News Network host, said Thursday a ground invasion of Iran will make the US \u201cpoorer and less safe\u201d.<\/p>\n “A ground invasion of Iran will make our country poorer and less safe. It will mean higher gas prices, higher food prices. And I’m not sure we would end up killing more terrorists than we would create\u201d, Gaetz said on the first day of the Conservative Political Action Conference. <\/p>\n Oil prices have surged since the US and Israel began striking Iran more than three weeks ago. Iran has effectively closed off the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that carries about a fifth of the world\u2019s oil. <\/p>\n Rachel Dobkin27 March 2026 03:15<\/p>\n <\/a>US senator on Iran war: ‘It’s time to come home’<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774585575_926_poster.jpg\")
Trump spends two minutes ranting about pens while attacking Fed chair Jerome Powell<\/a><\/p>\n