US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday AEST he had held off on imminent plans to resume attacking Iran, as Tehran rebuffs his demands for ending the war.
Trump said that he stopped the purported attack plan at the behest of Gulf Arab allies, which Iran has threatened with reciprocal attacks if the United States and Israel relaunch their assault and end a nearly six-week ceasefire.
Trump, who had indefinitely extended the truce and made clear he wants to exit a war that has proven to be a political liability, said publicly that he had prepared a new attack for Tuesday.
The leaders of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates asked him “to hold off on our planned Military attack of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was scheduled for tomorrow, in that serious negotiations are now taking place”, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
But Trump said he had instructed the US military to 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”.
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