Trump says Iran war talks taking place during lull in strikes
Trump says Iran war talks taking place during lull in strikes - Published US President Donald Trump has said "there are very friendly negotiations going...
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- Trump says Iran war talks taking place during lull in strikes - Published US President Donald Trump has said "there are very friendly negotiations going on" about the conflict with Iran, after the warring sides did not exchange strikes for a third straight day.
- Trump said he had decided to pause US strikes on Iran on Friday because the countries mediating between them had asked him to give the talks another chance.
- Iran has also halted its attacks.
- The US military said at the time that its strikes were aimed to "degrade Iran's ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz" - a global route for transporting oil.
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Trump says Iran war talks taking place during lull in strikes - Published US President Donald Trump has said "there are very friendly negotiations going on" about the conflict with Iran, after the warring sides did not exchange strikes for a third straight day. Trump said he had decided to pause US strikes on Iran on Friday because the countries mediating between them had asked him to give the talks another chance. Iran has also halted its attacks. The US military said at the time that its strikes were aimed to "degrade Iran's ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz" - a global route for transporting oil. As the US pauses the war with Iran, is Trump really running out of weapons? - Published53 minutes ago The US and Israel launched their strikes against Iran on 28 February.