US President Donald Trump has said caller talks with Iran volition statesman connected Monday, aft calling disconnected what helium said would person been "massive" strikes connected the country.
"They knew the grade of the onslaught due to the fact that they saw it forming," helium told reporters connected committee Air Force One. "We're talking to them successful the signifier of a negotiation. It begins time afternoon."
In an earlier station connected Truth Social, Trump said helium had been asked by Iran and US allies successful the Middle East to "hold off" connected immoderate onslaught arsenic the "perimeters" of a woody had been agreed.
Iran is yet to respond to Trump's remarks. The US president has repeatedly vowed that a negotiated extremity to the warfare is close, lone for tit-for-tat strikes to resume.
In his remarks connected Air Force One, Trump declined to outline a deadline for a woody to beryllium struck with Tehran, adding: "We'll conscionable spot however it is. We're acceptable to spell anytime we want... I'm not looking to termination people."
Trump added that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman - arsenic good arsenic US partners specified arsenic the United Arab Emirates and Qatar - had urged him against conducting strikes implicit the weekend.
"We were each acceptable to go," Trump said. "The crushed they asked is [that] they deliberation there's a deal," helium said. "There's a woody connected Hormuz, and determination volition beryllium a woody connected the nuclear."
Global lipid prices fell connected Monday greeting successful Asia trading aft Trump's announcement. Brent Crude lipid was down by 4.5% astatine $83.98 (£62.26), portion US-traded lipid was 4.6% little astatine $80.74 (£59.85).
Energy prices person fluctuated since the struggle started connected 28 February arsenic traders reacted to disruptions to shipping done the Strait of Hormuz.
Around 20% of the world's crude lipid and liquefied earthy state (LNG) usually flows done the strait.
Iran's semi-official Mehr quality bureau denied that Tehran had asked the US to clasp disconnected connected further subject action, saying Trump's claims were "nothing but a caller lie".
On Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that negotiations with Oman connected a woody connected the Strait of Hormuz were "on way for finalisation", according to Iranian media.
The US president has not yet made wide the venue for the talks connected Monday, nor the imaginable attendees.
During his remarks connected Air Force One, Trump said that the planned strikes would person been "the biggest onslaught since World War II", and could person derailed prospects of a negotiated extremity to the months-long war.
Trump declined to reply if helium had been readying to onslaught Iranian vigor infrastructure, which planetary instrumentality experts have said could represent a warfare crime.
Iran's acting Defence Minister Majid Ibn al-Reza earlier said Tehran viewed each menace from its adversaries arsenic "real and credible" adjacent if it formed portion of intelligence warfare.
"We volition neither beryllium caught disconnected defender nor stay passive," helium added.
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