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U.S. President Donald Trump said helium was postponing a planned onslaught connected Iran scheduled for Tuesday (May 19, 2026) astatine the petition of Gulf leaders amid “serious negotiations” with Tehran.
Mr. Trump’s abrupt announcement connected societal media connected Monday (May 18, 2026) came aft Iran said it had responded to a caller US connection aimed astatine ending the war.
Mr. Trump said helium would “hold disconnected connected our planned Military onslaught of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was scheduled for tomorrow,” successful a connection connected his Truth Social network.
The U.S. President said helium had been asked to bash truthful by the leaders of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates arsenic “serious negotiations are present taking place.”
The Gulf allies judge “a Deal volition beryllium made” that includes “NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS FOR IRAN!” added Mr. Trump.
Mr. Trump said helium had informed the U.S. subject “that we volition NOT beryllium doing the scheduled onslaught of Iran tomorrow.”
But helium said helium had “further instructed them to beryllium prepared to spell guardant with a full, ample standard battle of Iran, connected a moment’s notice, successful the lawsuit that an acceptable Deal is not reached.”
Mr. Trump had fixed Iran a bid of progressively ominous warnings successful the days since his instrumentality from a travel to China to conscionable President Xi Jinping.
Late Sunday (May 17, 2026) helium said the “clock is ticking” and threatened that “there won’t beryllium thing left” of Iran if nary bid woody is reached.
The United States and Israel person been locked successful a warfare with Iran since U.S. and Israeli forces launched strikes successful precocious February.
Mr. Trump has struggled to interruption an impasse successful negotiations and extremity the conflict, which has shaken the West Asia and sent vigor prices climbing.
The 2 sides person held lone a azygous circular of talks successful Pakistan contempt a fragile ceasefire successful April.
On Sunday (May 17, 2026), Iran’s Fars quality bureau said Washington had presented a five-point list, which included a request for Iran to support lone 1 atomic tract successful cognition and transportation its stockpile of highly enriched uranium to the United States.
Fars said that the Iranian connection had emphasized that Tehran would proceed to negociate the strategical Strait of Hormuz, a captious vigor conduit which Iran has mostly kept closed since the commencement of the war.
On Monday (May 18, 2026), the Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA), a caller assemblage Iran has acceptable up to negociate the Hormuz Strait, said it would supply “real-time updates” connected X of operations and developments successful the waterway.
Mr. Trump says Iran indispensable unfastened up the strait arsenic portion of immoderate deal.
