Skip linksSkip to Content Live Navigation menuNewsAfricaAsiaUS & CanadaLatin AmericaEuropeAsia PacificMiddle EastExplainedSportOpinionVideoFeaturesEconomyHuman RightsClimate CrisisInvestigationsInteractivesIn PicturesScience & TechnologyPodcastsTravelSponsored Content Live Navigation menuUS-Israel war on IranStrait of HormuzWhat is Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain?Why have strikes resumed?Bodies of EvidenceLive updates, Move comes after Iran’s top diplomat warned of a ‘decisive response’ to any US-Israeli ‘aggression’.An Iranian security man walks next to the Iranian missiles 'Zolfaghar' on display at the Azadi square in Tehran [Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA]By Shola Lawal and Umut UrasPublished On 2 Aug 2026
US President Donald Trump says he has cancelled planned attacks on Iran “subject to being able to rapidly make a deal”.
He claims Iran and other countries in the Middle East had asked him to hold off any strikes and that “the perimeters of a deal has been agreed to” including on the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
