President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he has called off impending strikes on Iran due to the state of negotiations.
“Based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved, I have … canceled the scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran this evening,” he said, hours after he threatened that the U.S. military would seize Kharg Island.
“Discussions and final points have been, in both concept and great detail, approved by all parties involved,” he said, including Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, and others.
The president did not provide details of the agreement.
Hours earlier, Trump posted on social media, “The United States will be hitting Iran (Whose Navy, Air Force, Radar, Anti Aircraft, and all other forms of Defense, together with most of its offensive capability, are GONE!), VERY HARD TONIGHT,” and he said that “at some point in the not too distant future,” the U.S. will try to take “Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets.”
