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Trump cancels Iran strikes scheduled for Thursday evening
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- President Donald Trump on Thursday canceled an upcoming round of U.S.
- But Trump — who has claimed for months that a peace deal with Iran is close at hand, only for none to emerge — indicated in his latest post that the purported agreement has yet to be made official.
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President Donald Trump on Thursday canceled an upcoming round of U.S. military strikes against Iran, claiming that talks with the Islamic Republic "have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved."
"Discussions and final points have been, in both concept and great detail, approved by all parties involved," including Israel and nine other regional powers, Trump wrote on Truth Social just hours after vowing to hit Iran "very hard" on Thursday evening.
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