Trump says he will pause attacks on Iran's energy plants

WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) - U.S. ​President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was pausing attacks ‌on Iran’s energy plants for 10 days at what he cast as the Iranian government’s request, and said talks with Tehran were going “very well.”

“As ​per Iranian Government request… I am pausing the period ​of Energy Plant destruction by 10 Days to ⁠Monday, April 6, 2026, at 8 P.M., Eastern Time,” Trump ​said in a post on Truth Social.

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“Talks are ongoing and, ​despite erroneous statements to the contrary by the Fake News Media, and others, they are going very well,” he said.

“I gave them a ​10-day period. They asked for seven,” Trump later told ​Fox News’ “The Five” show.

Trump, who has offered shifting goals and timeline for the ‌Iran ⁠war, ranging from overthrowing Iran’s government to destroying its military and missile capabilities, told Fox News he thinks the U.S. has won the war.

“In a certain sense, we have already ​won,” Trump said.

Trump ​has said ⁠Iran must make a deal or face a continued onslaught.

The war began on February 28 ​when the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran. Tehran ​subsequently ⁠responded by launching its own attacks on Israel and Gulf states with U.S. bases.

Joint U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran and Israeli attacks ⁠in ​Lebanon have killed thousands. The war has ​also raised oil prices and shaken global markets.

Reporting by Bhargav Acharya, Kanishka Singh ​and Jasper Ward; Editing by David Ljunggren and Bill Berkrot

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Bhargav Acharya

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Based in Toronto, Bhargav reports on breaking news across U.S. and Canada. Previously he spent three years with Reuters’ Sub-Saharan Africa breaking news hub in Johannesburg, and covered former Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius’s release, and the historic 2024 South African election. He was part of a team of reporters that Reuters named Journalists of the Year in 2023 in the Speed category for coverage of Africa. He has also spent three years in India with the news agency’s Global News Monitoring team. He has a master’s degree in International Studies. When he is not working, Bhargav likes to read and travel.

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Kanishka Singh is a breaking news reporter for Reuters in Washington DC, who primarily covers US politics and national affairs in his current role. His past breaking news coverage has spanned across a range of topics like the Black Lives Matter movement; the US elections; the 2021 Capitol riots and their follow up probes; the Brexit deal; US-China trade tensions; the NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan; the COVID-19 pandemic; and a 2019 Supreme Court verdict on a religious dispute site in his native India.

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