{"id":205169,"date":"2026-03-24T06:47:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-postpones-military-strikes-on-iranian-power-plants-for-five-days-al-jazeera\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T06:47:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:47:25","slug":"trump-postpones-military-strikes-on-iranian-power-plants-for-five-days-al-jazeera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-postpones-military-strikes-on-iranian-power-plants-for-five-days-al-jazeera\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump postpones military strikes on Iranian power plants for five days – Al Jazeera"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US president\u2019s announcement comes after he says he held \u2018good and \u200bproductive conversations\u2019 with Tehran.<\/em>
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\u2060President Donald Trump says the United States and Iran want to make a deal and the two sides have \u201cmajor points of agreement\u201d after he ordered the US military to postpone strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for five days.
\u201cI am pleased to report that the United States of America, and the country of Iran, have had, over the last two days, very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East,\u201d Trump posted on Monday in all caps on his Truth Social platform.
\u201cI have instructed the Department of War to postpone any and all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five day period, subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions.\u201d
Speaking to reporters at a Florida airport, Trump said Iran wanted \u201cto make a deal\u201d and US envoys have been holding talks with a \u201crespected\u201d Iranian leader but not Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei. He asserted that Iran must give up its enriched uranium stockpile for a deal.
The US president also said the Strait of Hormuz would be opened very soon if an agreement is reached.
\u201cIf a deal happens, it\u2019s a great start for Iran and the region,\u201d he said, adding that he could not guarantee a deal with Tehran. The US president claimed that the Iranians called him for talks and not the other way round.
Earlier, Trump told the Fox Business Network that Tehran wants to make a deal badly and it could happen within five days. He said his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were engaged in talks most recently on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s comments came as the US-Israeli war on Iran has spurred a widening crisis across the Middle East, with Iranian missile and drone attacks targeting countries across the region and sending global oil prices soaring.
In an effort to lower energy prices, Trump on Saturday gave Tehran 48 hours<\/a> to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to all vessels, warning that otherwise the US would \u201cobliterate\u201d Iran\u2019s power plants.
Trump\u2019s ultimatum was aimed at ending Tehran\u2019s chokehold on the Gulf waterway, through which a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas supplies pass.
Wall Street stocks mostly rose early on Monday after Trump said Washington and Tehran had held \u201cvery good\u201d talks. Oil prices \u2013 which have spiked since February 28, the day the US and Israel launched their war on Iran \u2013 were down sharply on Monday.
But Iranian officials denied that any talks had taken place between Washington and Tehran.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Monday that \u201cno negotiations have been held with the US\u201d, accusing Trump of trying to \u201cmanipulate the financial and oil markets and escape the quagmire in which the US and Israel are trapped\u201d.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei also denied that any discussions had taken place, saying that Tehran\u2019s position on the Strait of Hormuz and conditions for ending the war have not changed.
In comments shared by Iran\u2019s official IRNA news agency, Baghaei said that \u201cmessages have been received from some friendly countries regarding the US\u2019s request for negotiations to end the war\u201d.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera\u2019s Osama Bin Javaid said that with his announcement, Trump may have opened a potential off-ramp on the war on Iran.
\u201cThis is the breaking news that everybody in the region and beyond has been waiting for, \u2026 that Donald Trump, who declared this war unilaterally without legal backing, can end it unilaterally without any preconditions,\u201d he said.
Reporting from Washington, DC, Al Jazeera\u2019s Alan Fisher said it seems Trump might be looking for an off-ramp. \u201cHe has set a five-day deadline. We will see where the talks go at that point. But remember, Donald Trump\u2019s deadlines tend to be elastic. They have been in the past, and it could well be, come Friday, there won\u2019t be a resolution to this question.\u201d
Analyst Mohamad Elmasry of the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies said Trump\u2019s announcement may be \u201chis way of sort of giving himself a dignified exit\u201d.
\u201cBut the question that people need to ask is what the Iranians are going to do and what the Israelis are going to do and to what extent might they be willing to continue the war effort against Iran without US backing if that\u2019s what ends up happening here.\u201d
Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera\u2019s Mohamed Vall said the Iranians will possibly climb down despite three weeks of war. \u201cThe likelihood that they will refuse this offer from Trump is remote,\u201d he said.
\u201cThe Iranians do not want to continue this war. They say it was imposed on them and the region.
\u201cThey have said that if there are guarantees and further negotiations take place and if there is no repeat of the same type of aggression or any kind of aggression against Iran in the future and if there is a willingness to find a lasting deal, then I am sure the Iranians will not say no.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iran had previously said that if Trump carries out his threat to \u201cobliterate\u201d Iran\u2019s power plants, it would completely shut down the strait in retaliation. Tehran also pledged to attack energy facilities in Israel and Gulf countries.
Iran\u2019s de facto blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has caused a spike in global oil prices and a shortage of cooking gas in Asian countries. Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency, on Monday warned<\/a> that the situation in the Middle East is \u201cvery severe\u201d and is worse than the two energy crises of the 1970s and the fallout of the Ukraine war put together.
On Monday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps responded that if Washington went ahead with Trump\u2019s threat, Iran would target power plants in all regions that supply electricity to US bases \u201cas well as the economic, industrial and energy infrastructures in which Americans have shares\u201d.
In addition, the Defence Council warned that any attack on Iran\u2019s southern coast or islands would prompt the laying of sea mines that would sever Gulf shipping routes, according to state media.
Al Jazeera\u2019s Bin Javaid, citing conversations with diplomats, said even during the Eid holiday, \u201cmultiple countries at different levels have been holding conversations with embassies or directly with the White House.\u201d
\u201cPeople have told us they have been telling Trump that this process of escalation does not bode well for Iran or for Israel,\u201d he reported.
\u201cThere are multiple factors to take into account. One is the threat Trump issued about hitting power plants and energy infrastructure and Iran\u2019s response in a tit-for-tat escalation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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