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Trump says renewed US-Iran talks set to begin

The president did not say where the negotiations would take place.

U.S. President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in New Jersey, Aug. 2, 2026. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images.
U.S. President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in New Jersey, Aug. 2, 2026. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images.

Talks with Iran would resume on Monday afternoon, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday.

Trump did not say where the talks would take place or who would participate, Reuters reported.

Asked whether he had set a deadline for Tehran to reach a deal, Trump declined to answer directly.

“Would I rather make a deal? I’m not looking to kill people because people die, a lot of people die, and we don’t want that,” he said.

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.

In a post on his Truth Social platform, the president said the U.S. military was “locked and loaded” and prepared to attack the Islamic Republic with force “not seen since World War II.”

Trump said Iran and other regional countries had asked Washington to hold off because “the perimeters of a deal” had been agreed. He said the proposed terms would include the “immediate, complete, and total” reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and “an end to Iran’s nuclear threat.

“Based 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,” the president wrote.

Israel “joins me in this commitment,” Trump said in the post, adding, “Get to work, everybody, and get it done.”

Akiva Van Koningsveld is a news desk editor for JNS.org. Originally from The Hague, he made the big move from the Netherlands to Israel in 2020. Before joining JNS, he worked as a policy officer at the Center for Information and Documentation Israel, a Dutch organization dedicated to fighting antisemitism and spreading awareness about the Arab-Israel conflict. With a passion for storytelling and justice, he studied journalism at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht and later earned a law degree from Utrecht University, focusing on human rights and civil liability.
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