Hours after threatening a major attack against Iran on June 11, President Donald Trump announced he had canceled it, citing progress in high-level discussions with Tehran.
“Based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved, I have, as President of the United States of America, cancelled the scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran this evening,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
🚨 President Donald J. Trump on cancelled scheduled strikes against Iran. pic.twitter.com/iIijh6j5m2
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 11, 2026
He added that “discussions and final points” had been approved by the U.S., Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, and other countries.
“The Naval Blockade will remain in full force and effect until this Transaction is finalized — Time and place of the signing to be announced shortly,” Trump said.
Iran has not confirmed that a deal has been reached. According to NBC News, the country’s semiofficial Tasnim news agency said that “any statements by Trump on this matter should be viewed in the context of his previous claims” until a potential deal is “officially announced by Iran.”
The New York Post reported that Iran submitted a final draft of a prospective deal to the Qatari mediators on the night of June 10.
Trump’s announcement marked a sharp reversal hours after his earlier Truth Social warning that the U.S. would strike Iran “VERY HARD TONIGHT.” He also said the U.S. would, at “some point in the not too distant future,” seize Iran’s oil export hub on Kharg Island and “assume total control of [Iran’s] Oil and Gas Markets.”
— Department of State (@StateDept) June 11, 2026
Trump has previously threatened to take control of the island, which is located in the Persian Gulf and accounts for more than 90% of Iran’s oil exports.
In a FOX News interview shortly after the threat, Trump said the planned strikes would be “bigger” and “more powerful” than the ones carried out the day before.
As Zeale News previously reported, the U.S. resumed strikes against Iran June 10 after Trump said Tehran had downed an American military helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz earlier in the week. Both crewmen aboard the helicopter survived. Trump said in the FOX News interview that the U.S. “dropped $250 million worth of bombs” on Iran during the retaliatory strikes.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf responded to Trump’s June 11 threats in an X post by warning that the “wrong strategies and impulsive decisions” would “reset the entire board for the worse, explode energy infrastructure and markets and create an endless quagmire that you will be stuck in for years.”