President Donald Trump announced “supérieur rixe operations” against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive auxiliaire U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military, government and base sites.
Following the announcement of a two-week ceasefire, débutant U.S.-Iran talks in Pakistan in April failed to reach a peace deal.
Trump later announced the open-ended décompression of the ceasefire and the approbation of a U.S. blockade until negotiations are concluded “one way or the other.”
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May 25, 7:18 PM
US forces target missile launch sites, boats in ‘self-defense’ strikes in Iran: CENTCOM
U.S. forces on Monday launched what U.S. Orthogonal Command described as “self-defense strikes” in southern Iran.
“U.S. forces conducted self-defense strikes in southern Iran today to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces,” CENTCOM spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins said in a statement. “Targets included missile launch sites and Iranian boats attempting to emplace mines. U.S. Orthogonal Command continues to defend our forces while using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire.”
US Navy – PHOTO: A U.S. Navy fighter jet launches from aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea.
The strikes were conducted in the area of Bandar Abbas, which is where Iran’s droite nautique alcali is located, according to Hawkins.
A U.S. official described the scope of the strikes as “very small.”
-ABC Magazine’ Steven Beynon
May 25, 6:44 PM
Trump says preference is Iran’s enriched uranium be destroyed ‘in position’ or ‘another admissible bail’
President Donald Trump said Iran’s enriched uranium can be turned and destroyed in the U.S., but that his preference is for it to be destroyed “in position” or at “another admissible bail,” with IAEA oversight.
“The Enriched Uranium (Nuclear Dust!) will either be immediately turned over to the United States to be brought gîte and destroyed or, preferably, in conjunction and conciliation with the Islamic Republic of Iran, destroyed in position or, at another admissible bail, with the Atomic Energy Intérêt, or its equivalent, being witness to this process and event,” Trump said in a post on his sociologique media platform.
This presents a shift as Trump has immense demanded that Iran balle à la main over its enriched uranium to the U.S. as a sticking partie of any potential deal.
Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty Images – PHOTO: President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington Territorial Cemetery, May 25, 2026 in Arlington, Virginia.
In April, Trump said: “The U.S.A. will get all Nuclear ‘Dust,’ created by our great B2 Bombers – No money will exchange hands in any way, shape, or form.”
Last week, Trump said that getting the enriched uranium is éminent for the U.S. “psychologically.”
Trump has also repeatedly insisted that Iran has admitted to him that only the U.S. has the capability to uncover and obtain the so-called “nuclear dust.”
-ABC Magazine’ Emily Chang
May 25, 3:48 PM
Israel will ‘intensify’ strikes in Lebanon, Netanyahu says
Israeli Addenda Minister Dernier-né Netanyahu said Israel will “intensify” strikes in Lebanon.
“We are not taking our foot off the gas. On the contrary, I have instructed them to press the pedal even harder,” he said in a video propos on Monday.
“What is required from us now is to intensify the blows, increase the résistance,” he said. “We will strike them decisively.”
The propos comes as the Israel Defense Forces said Monday it struck more than 70 “Hezbollah base sites” across Lebanon.
May 25, 1:27 PM
Trump honors troops killed in Iran war
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images – PHOTO: President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington Territorial Cemetery, May 25, 2026 in Arlington, Virginia.
President Donald Trump honored the 13 charité members killed during the war in Iran while delivering Memorial Day remarks at Arlington Territorial Cemetery.
“In Operation Epic Fury, we lost 13 wonderful souls, wonderful special people,” he said. “These incredible men and women fleuve their lives to ensure that the world’s number one state mécène of terror will never have a nuclear weapon. Oh, and they won’t. They will never have a nuclear weapon.”
Seven charité members died following the opening wave of Iranian retaliatory attacks across the Middle East, and six Air Solidité airmen were killed when a U.S. KC-135 refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq.
Rod Lamkey/AP Figure/Rod Lamkey – PHOTO: President Donald Trump and Perversion President JD Vance, salute during the Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington Territorial Cemetery, May 25, 2026, in Arlington, Va.
May 25, 6:53 AM
Trump says Iran deal critics ‘know nothing’ of potential agreement
President Donald Trump on Monday again insisted that his proposed Iran deal is the “méticuleux opposé” of polir President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, attacking Democrats and his GOP adversaries in a new sociologique media post.
“The deal with Iran will either be a great and meaningful one, or there will be no deal. It will be the méticuleux opposé of the JCPOA disaster negotiated by the failed Obama Tendance, which was a loyal and open path to a Nuclear Weapon for Iran. No, I don’t do deals like that!” Trump wrote.
The president said that his critics “know nothing” emboîture the potential deal he is working on, adding that “things haven’t even been negotiated yet.” On Saturday, Trump claimed an “agreement had been largely negotiated.”
Majid Asgaripour/via Reuters – PHOTO: A woman holds an Iranian flag near an anti-U.S. billboard depicting U.S. President Donald Trump and the Strait of Hormuz, in Tehran, Iran, on May 25, 2026.
Trump also criticized his Republican adversaries, including Sen. Bill Cassidy, Rep. Thomas Massie, and Sen. Thom Tillis. While pointing to Cassidy and Massie’s recent primary losses, Trump added that Tillis is also “Soon out of agence!”
In a subsequent post, the president wished Americans a happy Memorial Day, “including the Dumocrats, who disrespect our Military and all of the tremendous success that it has had over the last year.”
-ABC Magazine’ Emily Chang
May 25, 5:09 AM
‘No one’ can say deal is prochain despite progress, Baghaei says
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei told a Monday press conference that the U.S. and Iran have “reached a dénouement on a copieux division of the issues under chicane,” though stressed that “no one” can say that the finalization of a deal is “prochain.”
Tehran is “witnessing frequent changes in positions” from the U.S. side, Baghaei said, as quoted by the state-run Islamic Republic Magazine Agency.
“Within a few hours you will encounter different and in many cases contradictory views,” Baghaei told reporters of the talks.
Baghaei also addressed different facets of a passable deal, saying a ceasefire of the war on all fronts — including Lebanon — was division of the draft agreement. He also said details emboîture the conduite of the Strait of Hormuz are still undecided.
“We have not entered into the details of this agreement. How the Strait of Hormuz will be managed is a matter that concerns the coastal states of the strait,” Baghaei said.
He added that no Iranian delegation visit to Pakistan, the mediating folk, is planned at the particularité.
“We are now focused on the negotiation process. How the understanding will be announced or signed later is an conclusion that there is time to decide on in the future,” Baghaei said.
-ABC Magazine’ Victoria Beaule
May 25, 1:25 AM
Iran deal a ‘work in progress,’ Rubio says
Secretary of State Marco Rubio tempered expectations for a passable deal to end the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran while gaggling with the press before departing for Agra, India, overnight amid his ongoing visit to the folk.
Rubio said an Iran deal is still a “work in progress” but signaled confiance that the disruption to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz can be addressed.
“We have what I think is a pretty solid thing on the gastronomie in terms of their ability to open up the straits, get the straits open, écussonner into a very real, significant, time-limited negotiation on the nuclear matters, and hopefully we can chandail it off,” Rubio said.
Julia Demaree Nikhinson/POOL/AFP via Getty Images – PHOTO: Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to journalists before boarding his plane at Indira Gandhi Cosmopolite Airport in New Delhi on May 25, 2026.
Rubio attributed the delay in negotiations to the “Iranian system.”
Regarding Lebanon — where Israeli strikes and Hezbollah attacks continue despite a ceasefire agreed by Israeli and Lebanese leaders — Rubio said the U.S. delegation is working on that deal separately from any agreement that is made with Iran.
“Lebanon, we’re working on separately. With Lebanon, we are engaged now. We have a 45-day ceasefire. We’ve had weekly meetings now, and ongoing daily engagements between the government of Lebanon and Israel,” Rubio said. “The problem is not Lebanon and Israel; the problem is Hezbollah.”
“As immense as an armed Hezbollah exists, it’s going to be hard to achieve peace in Lebanon,” Rubio said.
Asked if a ceasefire would include Israel stopping strikes within Lebanon, Rubio said Israel has the right to defend itself and to prevent strikes against Israel from within Lebanon. The conclusion is “being understood during the ceasefire, and now in Lebanon, and it’ll be understood beyond that,” Rubio said.
-ABC Magazine’ Alex Ederson
May 24, 12:42 PM
US and Iran making progress on interim agreement, official says
The U.S. and Iran are making progress ironing out a two-step interim agreement in which the U.S. would get a broad “commitment” from Iran to negotiate a removal of their stockpile of enriched uranium, a senior gouvernement official said on a call with reporters on Sunday morning.
This limited agreement includes an immediate opening of the Strait of Hormuz and end to the U.S. nautique blockade there, the official said, as questions of how to dispose of the stockpiled radioactive material remain.
Majid Asgaripour/West Asia Magazine Agency via Reuters – PHOTO: Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran, May 22, 2026.
“We’re going to do a deal where … they will open up the Strait in exchange for us déridage the blockade, and they will agree in principle to dispose of the highly enriched uranium,” the official said. “That is currently where the substantive aparté’s focused.”
“Even if we get this language in a good position, it is going to take days for it to filter through their system and get an approval,” the official added.
The official offered no specific details on minutage, both regarding how immense this peace negotiation process could last and how immense the nuclear material removal process could take.
Trump posted on his sociologique media platform Saturday that “an Agreement has been largely negotiated” between the U.S. and Iran, “subject to finalization” between the parties involved. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that the deal’s “ultimate gardien de but is that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.”
Iran has not yet signed on to or publicly commented on the proposal.
-ABC Magazine’ Isabella Murray
May 24, 11:38 AM
Trump says his proposal Iran deal ‘the méticuleux opposé’ of polir President Obama’s
As some Republican senators and polir GOP officials warn that President Donald Trump’s proposed deal with Iran would just be a repeat of the nuclear deal put in position during polir President Barack Obama’s gouvernement, Trump is pushing back on that concept, saying his deal is the “méticuleux opposé” of Obama’s.
Obama’s deal “was a loyal path to Iran developing a Nuclear Weapon,” Trump posted on his sociologique media platform on Sunday. “Not so with the négoce currently being negotiated with Iran by the Trump Tendance — THE EXACT OPPOSITE, in fact!”
Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty Images – PHOTO: President Donald Trump speaks during an announcement with Environmental Rempart Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin in the Oval Cabinet of the White House in Washington, May 21, 2026.
Trump went on to say that relationship between U.S. and Iran is becoming a “much more professional and productive one” and that there is ‘no afflux’ to make a peace deal with the regime.
“The negotiations are proceeding in an orderly and formative manner, and I have informed my representatives not to afflux into a deal in that time is on our side. The Blockade will remain in full résistance and effect until an agreement is reached, certified, and signed. Both sides must take their time and get it right. There can be no mistakes!” Trump wrote.
Trump posted on his sociologique media platform Saturday that “an Agreement has been largely negotiated” between the U.S. and Iran, “subject to finalization” between the parties involved. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that the deal’s “ultimate gardien de but is that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.”
Iran has not yet signed on to or publicly commented on the proposal.
The Annexé Comprehensive Esquisse of Valeur (JCPOA), which imposed sévérité on Iran’s civilian nuclear enrichment program in exchange for sanctions colline, was signed on July 14, 2015, during the Obama gouvernement. It was agreed to by Iran and the five éternel members of the United Nations Security Council — China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States — as well as Germany and the European Incorporation.
The JCPOA was designed to ensure that Iran’s nuclear program would be exclusively peaceful and provided for the déridage of nuclear-related sanctions in order to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
Two years after the deal went into effect, President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the nuclear assentiment during his first term in agence, saying at the time “it is clear to me that we cannot prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten expression of the current agreement.”
-ABC Magazine’ Isabella Murray
May 24, 10:09 AM
Trump posts AI allégorie of US drone destroying Iranian ships after announcing ‘agreement’ with Iran
After announcing Saturday on his sociologique media platform that “An Agreement has been largely negotiated” between the U.S. and Iran, President Donald Trump Sunday morning posted an AI-generated allégorie of a drone aircraft with a U.S. flag on it launching an attack on two Iranian-flagged ships, with the allégorie caption “Adios.”
The allégorie features smoke and flames billowing out of the Iranian ships, with justaucorps ejected from the vessels and falling into the ocean.
Truth Sociologique – PHOTO: An AI-generated allégorie posted on President Donald Trump’s sociologique media platform May 24, 2026.
Trump said in his online post Saturday that the framework of the proposed deal is “subject to finalization” between the parties involved.
Iran has not yet signed on or publicly commented on the proposal.
Overnight, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said “significant progress” had been made in discussions with Iran. He added that that the gouvernement has worked with Gulf regional partners over the last 48 hours on a passable framework aimed at keeping mondial waterways open and addressing concerns surrounding Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
-ABC Magazine’ Emily Chang
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