Trump: The US will stop attacks on Iran's energy targets following very good “ ” talks with Tehran

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23 March 2026, 13:35(4 months ago)

United States President Donald Trump has said Monday that Washington and Iran have developed productive “talks to finally solve the conflict in the Middle East. He also stressed that he would try “to bring all attacks on Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure” for a five-day period. Talks with Iran will continue [...]

He also stressed that he would bring up “all attacks on Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure” for a five-day period.

Talks with Iran will continue throughout the week, Trump said in a post on social networks.

“E has instructed the War Department to suspend all military attacks on Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five-day period, depending on the success of ongoing meetings and discussions”, he wrote.

There has been no announcement that talks were under way between Washington and Tehran, nor have the president mentioned details of the weekend talks.

The Fars news agency, which is close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), quoted sources as saying: “has no direct communication with Trump, nor through intermediaries”.

Meanwhile, Israel, which said immediately after Trump's announcement it was conducting air strikes in central Iran, has not commented publicly.

On Saturday, Trump had warned Iran that its power plants would be destroyed unless Tehran fully opened “Hormuz Strait for all shipping within 48 hours.

Trump set the deadline until Monday about midnight.

His warning prompted revolcitary threats by Iran's Revolutionary Guard, which in a statement Monday, said it would attack Israel's power plants and those that supply American bases to the Gulf region, if Trump applied his threat to them “completely destroyed” Iran's energy grid.

While Mohammad Bacher Qalibaf, chairman of the Iranian Parliament, warned that “immediately after targeting power plants and infrastructure in our country, vital infrastructure, as well as energy and oil infrastructure across the region, would be considered legitimate targets and would be permanently destroyed”.

More than 3,000 people were killed in the war that the US and Israel started on 28 February, according to the Iranian human rights group, HRANA.

War has shaken markets, increased fuel costs, scared of global inflation, and shaken the western post-war alliance.

The threat of attacks on electricity networks in the Persian Gulf has raised fears of major disruptions in the water desalination process for drink and has further troubled oil markets.