{"id":25000,"date":"2026-08-02T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T04:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=25000"},"modified":"2026-08-02T09:00:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T04:00:58","slug":"trump-halts-strike-on-iran-after-perimeters-of-a-deal-agreed-to-but-warns-us-is-locked-and-loaded-if-talks-crumble-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=25000","title":{"rendered":"Trump Halts Strike on Iran After \u2018Perimeters of a Deal\u2019 Agreed To \u2014 But Warns US Is \u2018Locked and Loaded\u2019 If Talks Crumble Yet Again"},"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_5741758\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5741758\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5741758\" src=\"https:\/\/am12.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26160220028993-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"trump holding up his hand\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5741758\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The anticipated pummeling of Iran has been halted, at least for the moment.<\/p>\n<p>President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> announced on Saturday evening he canceled a massive military strike on Iran after the &#8220;perimeters of a deal&#8221; were agreed to. Trump said he called off the strikes \u2014 which he said would be the most lethal American attacks since World War II \u2014 after Iran and other Middle Eastern countries lobbied the U.S. to pause the barrage, since a peace agreement was mostly in place.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Trump warned the U.S. is &#8220;locked and loaded and ready to go,&#8221; if the deal falls apart.<\/p>\n<p>The two biggest aspects to note: Trump said the deal includes the &#8220;Total OPENING&#8221; of the Strait of Hormuz, as well as puts an end to &#8220;Iran&#8217;s nuclear threat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read his full Truth Social<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117023461141824050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> post<\/a> below:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The U.S.A. is locked and loaded and ready to go against the Islamic Republic of Iran, at levels of Military Terror, Strength, and Power not seen since World War II. Despite this, we have just been asked by Iran, and other Middle Eastern Countries, to hold off any attack in that the perimeters of a deal has been agreed to.<\/p>\n<p>This would include the Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT, and an end to Iran\u2019s nuclear threat. Based on this request, I have agreed, for the future benefit of the WORLD and, likewise, the survival of a successful and prosperous Iran, to cancel the attack, subject to being able to rapidly make a DEAL.<\/p>\n<p>The Country of Israel joins me in this commitment. Get to work, everybody, and get it DONE. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s announcement came a day after he said the U.S. planned on ramping up its strikes on Iran.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"css-1qg6i2u e1l0xusv0\" data-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cWe will be hitting them very hard,\u201d Trump said during a televised press conference Friday at Camp David. \u201cAnd you know at some point, they\u2019re going to say, \u2018We just can\u2019t take it anymore.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\">A few days earlier,\u00a0he told Fox News the U.S. was going <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/trump-rages-about-surprise-iran-attack-to-fox-news-were-going-to-beat-the-fcking-sht-out-of-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to \u201cbeat the f*cking sh*t\u201d<\/a>\u00a0out of Iran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/trump-sours-on-diplomacy-vows-to-hit-iran-hard-2c7af868\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported\u00a0<\/a>on Friday,\u201dFor weeks behind closed doors, Trump has been telling aides that the Iranians are \u2018crazy,\u2019 according to U.S. officials. He also has complained to confidants that the interim peace deal was ultimately meaningless, officials said, and that he always knew it wasn\u2019t going to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s deal follows the 60-day ceasefire deal the U.S. and Iran reached in mid-June. But that agreement fell apart after Iran hit a Cyprus-flagged ship in the Strait of Hormuz last month, leading to nearly two straight weeks of retaliatory strikes from the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/trump-halts-strike-on-iran-after-perimeters-of-a-deal-agreed-to-but-warns-us-is-locked-and-loaded-if-talks-crumble-yet-again\/\">Trump Halts Strike on Iran After \u2018Perimeters of a Deal\u2019 Agreed To \u2014 But Warns US Is \u2018Locked and Loaded\u2019 If Talks Crumble Yet Again<\/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>(AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein) The anticipated pummeling of Iran has been halted, at least for the moment. President Donald Trump announced on Saturday evening he canceled a massive military strike on Iran after the &#8220;perimeters of a deal&#8221; were agreed to. Trump said he called off the strikes \u2014 which he said would be the most&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/am12.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26160220028993-1-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25000","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\/25000","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=25000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}