President Donald Trump said Thursday that the United States is under no pressure to end the war with Iran, but "the clock is ticking" for Tehran, as a third aircraft carrier arrived in the Middle East.
Iranian media reported blasts over the capital Tehran, a first since an increasingly tenuous cease-fire in the Middle East war came into effect two weeks ago. It was not clear what caused the blasts.
Prospective peace talks in Pakistan were hanging in the balance, meanwhile, with no sign of a return to diplomacy to end a standoff in the Strait of Hormuz.
Since Trump indefinitely extended a cease-fire in the Middle East war, the U.S. and Iran have shifted their focus to Hormuz, a blockaded waterway through which a fifth of oil and liquefied natural gas exports ordinarily flow.
"I have all the time in the World, but Iran doesn't," Trump said on social media. "The clock is ticking!"
