Trump Called Off The Planned Strikes On Iran

• 3.08.2026, 9:40

The U.S. president has once again spoken about the negotiations.

U.S. President Donald Trump announced that negotiations with Iran will resume on Monday—shortly after he, by his own account, called off a “large-scale attack” on that country.

This was reported by CNN.

The talks are scheduled to resume in the afternoon of August 3.

“They knew the scale of the attack because they saw it being prepared. We’re now negotiating with them. The talks will begin tomorrow afternoon, and we’ll see what comes of it,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday, upon returning from a weekend spent at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

According to the U.S. leader, both regional allies—Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar—and Iran itself approached him with a request to call off the planned strike.

“We were already fully prepared to act, but when our allies asked us to call off the attack, we, so to speak, replied, ‘Well, we’ll see.’ And they’re asking for this because they believe there’s an agreement,” Trump explained.

“There is an agreement on the Strait of Hormuz, and then there will be an agreement on the nuclear program—or, as you call it, the denuclearization of Iran. I call it the denuclearization of Iran,” the president added.

As reported on Sunday by the Saudi Arabian state news agency, the kingdom’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman held a phone conversation with Trump, during which he insisted on de-escalating the conflict. Earlier, sources speaking to CNN clarified that the crown prince had expressed concern about plans to strike Iran.

When asked whether the strikes could target the country’s energy infrastructure, Trump declined to answer. However, in a Saturday post on Truth Social, he reiterated that the United States remains “on high alert and ready to act” against Iran.