President Donald Trump on Thursday announced that he had cancelled planned airstrikes on Iran after the regime, along with other regional stakeholders, had reached a peace deal -- an agreement that Iran later denied it has reached. Photo by Samuel Corum/UPI | License Photo
June 11 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump on Thursday said that he cancelled new U.S. strikes in Iran because Iranian leadership, and other regional powers, have approved "final points" in a deal to end the war.
Trump said in a mid-afternoon post on Truth Social that he cancelled military strikes that were announced on Wednesday because the United States, Iran, Israel and other Middle Eastern nations reached an agreement.
The United States on Wednesday had launched airstrikes in Iran and that it planned to hit the country "very hard," Trump had said, and would seize Kharg Island, where 90% of Iran's crude oil exports are shipped from.
A shaky cease-fire had held in the three-month-old conflict, occasional skirmishes and blockage of the Strait of Hormuz aside, for weeks until Iran carried out a "powerful assault" on U.S. military assets Tuesday, which prompted Trump's now jettisoned threat of new, larger airstrikes.
