President Donald Trump took phone calls from several reporters on Friday, dishing to each new information about the negotiations between the U.S. and Iran. Traditional channels in Washington, D.C., and Tehran, meanwhile, largely stayed quiet.
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi announced early on Friday that the country would halt its threat to attack vessels transiting the waterways off its coasts — a threat that has persisted the entirety of the conflict, which has sent oil prices up dramatically — and since then, Trump has barely put the phone down.
Trump told Bloomberg News that Iran has agreed to suspend its nuclear program indefinitely without the reported concession of the U.S. releasing frozen Iranian funds. He told Axios that a “meeting will probably take place over the weekend” and that he believes they will “get a deal in the next day or two.”
Vice President JD Vance, presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, and
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