Item 1 of 2 A woman walks past a billboard depicting US President Donald Trump inside a prison cell, in Tehran, Iran, November 3, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS [1/2] A woman walks past a billboard depicting US President Donald Trump inside a prison cell, in Tehran, Iran, November 3, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS Purchase Licensing Rights , opens new tab Nov 3 (Reuters) - The United States has no immediate plans to strike Iran, President Donald Trump told the Financial Times.
In an interview with the FT on Tuesday, Trump suggested he was content with the state of the stand-off with Iran. Sign up here. “We seem to be getting everything we want,” Trump said in the six-minute telephone interview. Reporting by Mrinmay Dey in Mexico City; Editing by Chris Reese Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. , opens new tab Suggested Topics: World X Facebook Linkedin Email Link Purchase Licensing Rights
Reuters gives a three-line wire brief on Trump telling the Financial Times the US has no immediate plan to strike Iran. It describes the situation only as a "stand-off", although Reuters' own earlier reporting calls it a war, and other coverage of the same interview notes earlier US strikes on Iran.
Drops what it reported before
Minor
“stand-off”
Why this matters
Reuters describes US-Iran relations only as a "stand-off" and never uses the word war, nor says the US has already struck Iran.
The impression it gives
A reader of this brief may think the US and Iran are in a tense standoff in which no American strikes have yet taken place, so a strike would be a new step.
The context
Reuters itself reported ten days earlier that Trump said the United States "could end the war with Iran" quickly. Other coverage of this same interview records Trump pointing to previous American military operations against Iran's nuclear infrastructure.