Trump says US has no immediate plans to strike Iran, ‘getting everything we want’ in negotiations

Jerusalem Post/Middle East/Iran NewsUS Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday that there had been "a number of good conversations with the Iranians" after officials from the Islamic regime met with Qatari mediators in Doha.Follow us on GoogleUS President Donald Trump delivers remarks ahead of the midterm elections at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, after being reopened following months of repairs, on the National Mall in Washington, DC, US, November 2, 2026.(photo credit: JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS)NOVEMBER 4, 2026 01:52Updated: NOVEMBER 4, 2026 02:33US President Donald Trump said that the United States has no immediate plan to renew strikes against Iran during an interview with the Financial Times on Tuesday.The statement followed US military strikes on Iran's Qeshm Island after the regime claimed to have downed an American drone, a US official confirmed to The Jerusalem Post on Monday.On ongoing indirect negotiations with Tehran, Trump claimed, “We seem to be getting everything we want.”He added that the US military is “locked and loaded” if strikes are necessary, but noted that there may be no reason to reignite military action.Trump's comments came after a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Tuesday that Iran and the US are far from reaching a deal to end the war.Illustrative; Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani meets with Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni in Doha, Qatar, October 6, 2026. (credit: Amiri Diwan/Handout via REUTERS)The US president had told reporters on Monday that he was not considering striking Iran after the midterm elections, which are set to conclude on Wednesday morning.Trump further told the FT that the US is "not really in a war" with Iran, citing Operation Midnight Hammer as having "wiped out their nuclear potential incapacity.""We then hit them again, Epic Fury, etc . . . But if you think about it, we haven’t really had a war with them in a long time, six months, maybe more," said Trump.He added that talks were ongoing regarding Iran's "nuclear dust," saying "we’ll see how that all works out."Iran concludes third day of talks with Qatari mediators in DohaUS Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday that there had been "a number of good conversations with the Iranians" after officials from the Islamic regime met with Qatari mediators in Doha for a third consecutive day of talks."Look, the president and I both feel pretty good about the prospects for potentially coming to a negotiated settlement," he said. "We're going to keep on working at it."Vance sent a letter to Iran on Wednesday about negotiations, according to The Wall Street Journal, and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called it a "positive step" toward resuming talks between the two countries in comments to Al Jazeera on Friday.Asher Smith contributed to this report.Follow us on Google