Trump Postpones Planned Attack on Iran After Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE Seek Diplomacy

US President Donald Trump postponed a planned attack on Iran after leaders from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates requested additional time for diplomacy and mediation, while warning the US military remained prepared for a “full, large-scale assault” if diplomacy failed.

“United States President Donald Trump said he postponed a planned attack on Iran after requests from the leaders of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, adding that “serious negotiations are now taking place” behind the scenes”

Al Jazeera

Kurdistan24 reported that Trump had authorized a major military strike against Iran scheduled for Tuesday but delayed the operation, and it said Iran’s Brig. Gen. Mohammad Akraminia warned that any new American attack would lead Tehran to open “new fronts” using “new tools and methods.”

Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera said Trump’s comments indicated “serious negotiations are now taking place” behind the scenes, and it quoted Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian defending Tehran’s participation in talks while rejecting suggestions that Iran was backing down under pressure.

The same Al Jazeera report framed the wider context as continuing Israeli attacks on Lebanon, noting the death toll crossed 3,000 and that at least seven people were reported killed on Monday, despite a US-brokered extension of the “ceasefire.”

Iranian deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs Kazem Gharibabadi rejected any notion of surrender in response to Trump’s “temporary” halt to attacks, saying, “Iran stands united and decisively ready to confront any military aggression.”

PressTV carried Gharibabadi’s argument that the US calls a “threat” a “peace opportunity,” and it quoted him saying, “For us, surrender has no meaning; either we win, or we become martyrs.”

Al-Bayadir as-Siyasi

Al Jazeera added that Mohsen Rezaei mocked Trump for setting and then cancelling a deadline for a military attack on Iran, saying Tehran would not surrender under pressure, while it also cited Major-General Ali Abdollahi warning the US and its allies against making another “strategic mistake or miscalculation.”

In the same Al Jazeera report, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said its forces struck groups linked to the US and Israel in Iran’s western province of Kurdistan near the border with Iraq, and it described the IRGC claim that groups from “northern Iraq and acting on behalf of the US and the Zionist regime” were attempting to smuggle a large shipment of American weapons and ammunition into Iran.

CBS News said Trump called off what he described as a scheduled attack on Iran after “serious negotiations” toward a peace deal, and it reported that before Trump’s announcement Iran said it conveyed another amended set of terms while focusing “entirely on an agreement to end the war.”

CBS News also quoted Trump telling military leaders “to be prepared to go forward with a full, large scale assault of Iran, on a moment's notice,” and it included White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly’s position that “Iran must renounce their nuclear ambitions for good.”

Economy الشرق مع بلومبرغ said the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani asked Trump to open space for serious negotiations, and it reported Trump directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Daniel King and the US military “not to carry out the attack scheduled for tomorrow.”

In that same account, Trump said the request came because leaders “believe a deal will be reached” that would be “very acceptable” to the United States and countries in the Middle East and beyond, and it linked the condition to Iran’s commitment “not to possess nuclear weapons.”