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Trump on Iran negotiations: US president calls off strikes amid breakthrough

By Christine Maguire, Alex Milan Durie and Federica Marsi
Published On 12 Jun 2026

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  • US President Donald Trump says he called off air strikes on Iran because a peace deal is close to being agreed on and a time and place of the signing are “to be announced shortly”.
  • Iran’s Foreign Ministry says “the main part of the text was almost finalized but the Americans were being greedy and raising new requests”.