Source : BRICS NEWS
WASHINGTON, October 25, 2026 – US President Donald Trump has said there will be no American strike on Iran “today”, ruling out immediate military action while leaving the door open to renewed attacks as he weighs whether to pursue a deal with Tehran, BRICS News reported.
BRICS News reported the remarks in a post on X on Sunday, stating: “President Trump says there will be no strikes on Iran today.” The post did not say whether military action remained under consideration for the days ahead.
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Asked by a reporter whether a US attack on Iran could take place as soon as Sunday, Trump replied: “Would I tell you that? The answer is no. There will not be a strike today,” according to The Jerusalem Post. The newspaper noted that the president did not rule out military action at a later date.
Earlier in the day, Trump told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” that he had yet to decide whether to resume strikes. “Now, my question is, do I make a deal with them, or do I finish them off?” he said, CBS News reported. On Friday, he had suggested that Washington “may do another little Epic Fury”, a reference to the joint US-Israeli military campaign against Iran.
Trump also said the United States was monitoring Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site, as well as three other sites that were reportedly destroyed in earlier strikes. “There isn’t much activity going on there,” he said, The Jerusalem Post reported.
Tehran, for its part, signalled that diplomacy had not been abandoned. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, said the window for diplomacy had not been closed and that messages were still being passed to the United States through intermediaries, the Associated Press (AP) reported. Baghaei said Washington appeared to persist with unilateral demands, adding that Trump and US officials repeatedly used the phrase “complete surrender”, which he said no Iranian would accept. Al Jazeera reported that Qatari mediators visited Tehran on Sunday.
Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, said on Sunday that a possible resumption of war with Israel and the United States would not change his country’s positions, CBS News reported. A day earlier, Iran warned that US ships would never be allowed in the Persian Gulf “under any circumstances”.
Security concerns have also risen in recent days. On Friday, US Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton warned that Iran had “substantially increased efforts to target U.S. personnel” abroad, with plots reaching “advanced stages” in the Middle East and other countries, according to CBS News. The Times of Israel, citing The New York Times, reported that two Iranian officials, one of them a member of the Revolutionary Guards, had confirmed that the Islamic Republic was preparing to target US diplomats and personnel.
Meanwhile, the head of US Central Command, Admiral Brad Cooper, flew over the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday and said more than 3,000 commercial vessels had transited the waterway with US military support over the past six months, AP reported.
The timing of any decision is being closely watched. The Jerusalem Post reported that the prevailing assessment in Washington is that Trump will hold off on a final decision on military action until after the November 3 midterm elections, although US officials quoted by the newspaper said a joint US-Israeli strike was a question of “when”, not “if”. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly warned of possible Iranian attacks in the run-up to Israel’s election on Tuesday, The Times of Israel reported.
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