Trump said in the Oval Office that Iran has a "last chance" to make a deal.
President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military, government and infrastructure sites.
Delegations from the U.S. and Iran entered negotiations in June aimed at a war-ending deal based on a memorandum of understanding signed by both countries.
The U.S. and Iran have nonetheless continued to exchange strikes, with the strategic Strait of Hormuz the primary flashpoint.
Yahya Saree, the official spokesperson of the armed forces of the Houthi rebels in Yemen, said in a post to X on Tuesday that Houthi forces launched an attack on the Najran Airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia, close to the border with Yemen.
Saree claimed that the "precise" drone strike was successful. The Saudi Defense Ministry has not yet commented on the Houthi claim.
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The U.K. Maritime Trade Operations Centre (UKMTO) said that a cargo ship reported being hit by an "unknown projectile" off the coast of Oman on Monday.
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President Donald Trump said during an Oval Office signing event that this is Iran’s “last chance” to make a deal.
When asked about the number of times he’s called off strikes after threatening them, the president responded, “I don't know. I think we're going to maybe get something, but I want to give every last chance before decapitation.”
Trump said the first phase of a deal would open the Strait of Hormuz immediately. He said the second phase of the deal being negotiated now is Iran’s denuclearization, though he noted that phase would come later and “take a little while.”
Trump also suggested that Iran was swayed by the threat of Sunday night’s planned attacks, which Trump said would have been “harder” than “any” attack since World War II.
“But in this case, leakers helped because they said the severity of the attack, and Iran knew it. They knew what was coming. It was going to come last night, and it would have gone on for a long time, and there'd be essentially very little left. There'd be nothing left, and if I'm given a chance to let a lot of people live, I want to give that chance. So I'm under no time constraint,” Trump said.
Trump also insisted there will be no tolls charged in the Strait of Hormuz, but he added, “if anybody’s going to charge, we’ll charge.”
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President Donald Trump is claiming that Iranian leaders are being “unbelievably duplicitous” in their public statements about negotiations with the U.S., writing on social media Monday that Iranian leaders “beg” for meetings and then publicly say they won’t have discussions.
"Whether Iran wants to admit it or not, we are, in fact, talking of a solution to a problem that they have caused, for decades," Trump said.
The president’s post comes after he said on Sunday that another round of negotiations would begin on Monday -- though Iran said no talks are underway.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei reiterated Monday that ongoing talks with Oman are strictly about the Strait of Hormuz and that "the issues related to Iran and the United States should be examined in the next stages to see in which direction the situation will go."
Trump, in his post, appeared frustrated with Iran’s insistence that they’re “only dealing with” Oman.
“Iranian Leadership is unbelievably duplicitous! They ask for a meeting, some would say ‘beg,’ talks begin, with more scheduled in the immediate future, and they say, openly and proudly, that they’re not having any discussions, that nothing is being talked about, and they’re only dealing with ‘Oman,’” Trump wrote.
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