{"id":93439,"date":"2026-08-02T08:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T13:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/?p=93439"},"modified":"2026-08-02T08:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T13:51:15","slug":"trump-says-planned-iran-strikes-canceled-after-perimeters-of-new-deal-agreed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/trump-says-planned-iran-strikes-canceled-after-perimeters-of-new-deal-agreed\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says planned Iran strikes canceled after \u2018perimeters\u2019 of new deal agreed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By AKIVA VAN KONINGSVELD<\/p>\n<div class=\"ArticlePage-dateAndSource\">(<em>JNS.org<\/em>) \u2013&nbsp;U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he had canceled a planned attack on Iran after Tehran had agreed in principle to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and negotiate an end to its nuclear program.<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_93440\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/FA-Super-Hornet.webp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93440\" class=\"wp-image-93440 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/FA-Super-Hornet-300x169.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/FA-Super-Hornet-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/FA-Super-Hornet-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/FA-Super-Hornet.webp 1000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/169;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93440\" class=\"wp-image-93440 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/FA-Super-Hornet-300x169.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/FA-Super-Hornet-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/FA-Super-Hornet-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/FA-Super-Hornet.webp 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-93440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A U.S. sailor observes F\/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jets launching from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush in the Arabian Sea. Credit: United States Central Command.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said the U.S. military was \u201clocked and loaded\u201d and prepared to launch an attack against the Islamic Republic with force \u201cnot seen since World War II.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said Iran and other regional countries had asked Washington to hold off because \u201cthe perimeters of a deal\u201d had been agreed. He said the proposed terms would include the \u201cimmediate, complete, and total\u201d reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and \u201can end to Iran\u2019s nuclear threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on this request, I have agreed, for the future benefit of the world and, likewise, the survival of a successful and prosperous Iran, to cancel the attack, subject to being able to rapidly make a deal,\u201d the president wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Israel \u201cjoins me in this commitment,\u201d Trump said in the post, adding, \u201cGet to work, everybody, and get it done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The American military and the Israel Defense Forces had been planning to restart joint attacks on Iran, targeting critical energy infrastructure sites, possibly beginning this weekend,&nbsp;<i>CBS News<\/i>&nbsp;reported on Saturday, citing unnamed U.S. officials.<\/p>\n<p>Asked on Friday about talks to end the conflict with the Islamic Republic, Trump had said that Iranian negotiators were making him \u201cangry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m losing faith in them because they do lie and do, they do misrepresent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Moshe Passal, a legislator for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s ruling Likud Party, told JNS on Sunday that as long as the Islamic regime remains in power in Iran, it will continue to pose a significant threat to the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as confronting the problem is postponed, the price we pay will only grow. When the world faced Hitler, there were those who said, \u2018Let\u2019s reach an agreement,\u2019\u201d Passal said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the end, there was no choice\u2014the world had to defeat him, and that came at a cost. People in Britain, the United States, Europe and around the world paid the price. I don\u2019t believe any agreement can be reached with this regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Iran is now willing to reach an agreement over denuclearization since it no longer has its \u201c<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/news\/u-s-news\/rubio-degrading-irans-conventional-shield-puts-us-in-position-of-strength\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">conventional shield<\/a><\/span>\u201d of drones and missiles to hide behind.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Saturday night with&nbsp;<i>Fox News<\/i>\u2019 Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of the president, Rubio said that \u201cI don\u2019t think the Iranian regime has ever faced a president like President Trump, which is someone that actually takes action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tehran still has drones and missiles, which can inflict damage, but degrading its military capabilities has allowed the U.S. to approach the Iranian regime \u201cfrom a position of strength, not from a position of weakness,\u201d the secretary of state said.<\/p>\n<p>Likud Party Knesset member Amit Halevi told JNS on Sunday that the Iranian regime poses the greatest threat to the free world and would ultimately have to be defeated militarily.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that in the last century, had the West not taken the initiative, Washington would still be locked in a major struggle against Hitler, Japan and others today. We are facing a barbaric, totalitarian and racist enemy, and we need to treat it accordingly,\u201d Halevi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sure that sooner or later President Trump\u2014and whoever occupies the White House after him\u2014will have to enter this battle, because it\u2019s here, and it\u2019s not going anywhere,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Brig. Gen. (res.) Amir Avivi, founder and chairman of the Israel Defense and Security Forum, told JNS on Sunday that while Trump appears willing to allow more time for diplomacy, he is unlikely to give Iran much of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to remember that the attack may have been postponed, but Iran remains under a full blockade, so in a sense, the war is still ongoing. The big question is how long the president will be willing to negotiate and whether the Iranians are serious,\u201d Avivi said.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that the United States and Israel can cripple the Iranian regime by depriving it of its economic assets and its ability to sustain itself through a short military campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe the Iranians are going to agree to anything, and I don\u2019t think these talks will achieve anything on the nuclear issue. Ultimately, they are only postponing what is inevitable: striking the regime hard and bringing it to its knees,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Trump%20says%20planned%20Iran%20strikes%20canceled%20after%20%E2%80%98perimeters%E2%80%99%20of%20new%20deal%20agreed\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":93440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1781,184,8781,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93442,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93439\/revisions\/93442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}