Breaking: U.S. And Israel Holding Off On Iran Strikes, Trump Confirms | US-Iran War | WION

Well, we have some breaking news that is coming in. U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that U.S. and Israel have agreed to cancel attack on Iran. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that he has made the decision on the insistence of Iran and other Gulf countries. He also added that it is subject to being able to rapidly make a deal. He said the commitment was despite U.S. being locked and loaded and ready to go against the Islamic Republic at levels of military terror, strength and power not seen since World War II. Well, this is the breaking news that we are getting in at this hour. U.S. President Donald Trump has just announced on Truth Social that he has agreed to hold off and cancel a planned military attack against Iran. Well, according to the post, the dramatic decision came at the direct insistence of Iran and other regional Gulf countries who reached out with the parameters of a potential agreement already on the table. Now, this comes even as Trump emphasized that the United States military was completely locked and loaded, standing ready to unleash a level of strength and power against the Islamic Republic not seen since World War II. However, the U.S. Commander-in-Chief explicitly noted that this halt is strictly subject to both sides being able to rapidly finalize the deal, keeping high-stakes diplomacy hanging in a delicate balance as we monitor developments straight as of now. This is the breaking that we are getting in at this hour. And to give us more details, my colleague Shivan Shanana is joining us live from the newsroom. Well, Shivan, what are the latest updates on this sudden reversal and are we getting any official confirmation from Tehran or regional mediators regarding this proposed deal? Adia, Tehran is silent on this reversal from Donald Trump. But as far as the reversal is concerned, it does not come as a surprise. We've seen this ample number of times over the course of the last five months. This war initially started on a four-to-five-week timeline. We're now entering month six and here we are again. There was a major threat last we heard from Iran from the Iranian authorities and several figures in Iran is that U.S. is resorting to back-channel conversations while it continues to threaten up front. So those threats largely seem for the headlines. That's the sense you get from the Iranian commentary that is coming in from the Iranian leadership at this point. But looking back at this post, you've briefly gone into it. Let me go a little further into this latest post by Donald Trump. He said, we're locked and loaded, ready to go. But I have called off the attack. I have agreed to cancel this attack on Iran. He says that this is on the request of Iran, as asked by Iran and other Middle Eastern countries, to hold off any attack and in that the perimeters of a deal have been agreed to. Now this is what Donald Trump is again suggesting. He says this would include the immediate, complete and total opening of the Hormuz Strait and an end to Iran's nuclear threat. Based 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. And there's further in that post as well. But if you just look at the Hormuz Strait, he's saying that on the basis of the fact that Iran is now willing to open the Strait of Hormuz, he has cancelled this current attack, which was supposed to take place over the weekend and it would be targeting all the major energy facilities across Iran. This kind of a threat has been made by Donald Trump in the past as well. If I were to just help our audiences recall earlier, towards the end of March, there were continuous deadlines and extensions of deadlines that Donald Trump was issuing. It was leading up to a massive attack on energy infrastructure across Iran. Iran went ahead and even made human chains around its energy infrastructures. But then you had a final decision from the US administration saying that a ceasefire has been announced, which happened somewhere towards the first week of April. Ever since then, sporadic violence has continued. Lot more took place. But at this point, again, a similar threat came out. And just when time was about to run out for that threat to be put into kinetic action, you've heard from the US president that they're backing off from it. He says we've cancelled it in terms for a deal to take place. But as far as the Hormuz Strait is concerned, let us remind all our viewers, Iran has been absolutely steady in their claim for the Hormuz Strait. They've made it clear time and again. The Hormuz Strait will never go back to pre-war levels. So where the nuclear program remains the original sticking point between the two sides, the Strait of Hormuz has turned out to be a bigger sticking point. And that's the biggest irony over the course of these last five months that we've seen emerging from the West Asian regions. As of now, there is no deal. And whether this will lead to any kind of a deal, we'll need to wait and watch. Till now, there has been no deal between the two sides. Right Shiv, and we'll have to wait and see what we are going to get like today. But thank you so much for getting us all the details.