{"id":17531,"date":"2026-07-26T06:40:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=17531"},"modified":"2026-07-26T06:40:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:40:48","slug":"trump-reportedly-ordered-pause-in-iran-strikes-after-13-straight-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=17531","title":{"rendered":"Trump Reportedly Ordered Pause in Iran Strikes After 13 Straight days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5745444\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5745444\" class=\"wp-image-5745444 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/am12.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26142800727596-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"trump\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5745444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Brandon\/AP Photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A pause in strikes between Iran and the United States apparently came because President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> did not give the go ahead for that day&#8217;s planned military action, according to a report Saturday from Axios.<\/p>\n<p>Trump reportedly told the military not to unleash any new strikes against Iran on Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/iran-and-u-s-appear-to-pause-strikes-for-a-night-after-trump-talks-of-massive-attack\/\">marking a pause in the hostilities<\/a> after 13 straight days of strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Sources <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/07\/25\/trump-iran-war-military-directive-strikes?utm_campaign=mrf-utm_campaign=editorial&amp;utm_source=x&amp;utm_medium=owned_social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;mrfcid=202607256a59a8c16012565afff8cb39\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Axios that<\/a> Trump received a plan for strikes from the military but did not give his approval to carry it out.<\/p>\n<p>The recent escalation in hostilities came after\u00a0a memorandum of understanding between the two nations, which was supposed to include a ceasefire, fell apart.<\/p>\n<p>There were also no reported new strikes from Iran on American targets in the region Saturday, according to reports,<\/p>\n<p>The apparent pause in airstrikes came after Trump told Axios reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/07\/23\/trump-axios-iran-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Barak Ravid<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Thursday that he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/trump-says-hes-close-to-ordering-massive-attack-on-iran-they-havent-received-enough-pain-yet\/\">was mulling military strikes<\/a>\u00a0that would go beyond anything carried out since Operation Epic Fury began on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n<p>The president told the outlet he had not yet made a final decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am considering a massive attack. Bigger than ever before. I am close to making a decision. We are all set for it,\u201d Trump said, adding of Iran, \u201cThey haven\u2019t received enough pain yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reported pause also came a day after Trump spoke to reporters in the Oval Office and refused to answer a direct questions as to whether blowing up bridges, power plants and water desalination facilities constitutes a war crime.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/trump-refuses-to-say-if-blowing-up-irans-bridges-is-war-crime-i-wont-respond-to-that-question\/\">refused to answer<\/a>\u00a0when asked if blowing up civilian sites in Iran constituted a war crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won\u2019t respond to that question,\u201d the president told\u00a0<strong>Shawn McCreesh<\/strong>\u00a0of\u00a0<em>The New York Time<\/em>s.<\/p>\n<p>Four American troops\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/new-bombshell-report-reveals-trump-admin-removed-us-troops-names-from-iran-casualty-list\/\">were recently killed in the conflict,<\/a>\u00a0bringing the death toll to 18 since the war began.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/trump-reportedly-ordered-pause-in-iran-strikes-after-13-straight-days\/\">Trump Reportedly Ordered Pause in Iran Strikes After 13 Straight days<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\">Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Brandon\/AP Photo A pause in strikes between Iran and the United States apparently came because President Donald Trump did not give the go ahead for that day&#8217;s planned military action, according to a report Saturday from Axios. Trump reportedly told the military not to unleash any new strikes against Iran on Friday, marking a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/am12.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26142800727596-1-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}