US President Donald Trump said yesterday he had given orders to postpone any military strikes against Iranian power plants for five days, hours ahead of a deadline that threatened further escalation in the conflict now in its fourth week.
Trump added in a post on his Truth Social platform that the US and Iran had had ‘very good and productive’ conversations over the past two days about a ‘complete and total resolution of hostilities in the Middle East’.
Trump later said that his special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner, who had been negotiating with Iran before the war, had discussions with a top Iranian official and would continue.
“We have had very, very strong talks. We’ll see where they lead. We have major points of agreement, I would say, almost all points of agreement.”
“All I’m saying is, we are in the throes of a real possibility of making a deal,” he told reporters before departing Florida for Memphis.
A reporter for the US news outlet Axios said Türkiye, Egypt and Pakistan had met Witkoff and, separately, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi.