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Last Updated: September 28, 2026, 4:09 AM EDT

President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military, government and infrastructure sites.

Delegations from the U.S. and Iran entered negotiations in June aimed at a war-ending deal based on a memorandum of understanding signed by both countries.

Those talks broke down as the U.S. and Iran continued to exchange strikes, with the strategic Strait of Hormuz as the primary flashpoint. Trump then said in August that the U.S. would launch a "crushing economic operation" to force Tehran into submission.

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Trump says he expects more talks with Iran this week, but is open to new strikes

President Donald Trump said that he expects more talks with Iran to occur this week as he continues to claim the country wants to make a deal to end the war, an agreement that has continued to elude the president.

"I expect more talks with Iran [this week]. They want to make a deal, but it is not the deal that I want to make. It is what we would have maybe agreed to a year ago. They overplayed their hand," Trump told Axios in a piece published Sunday.

President Donald Trump waits before welcoming China's President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan for tea at the White House, in Washington, September 25, 2026.
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Asked if he was considering new strikes against Iran, Trump responded: "I am always thinking about it."

The president also claimed that more than 20 million barrels of oil transited the Strait or Hormuz over the weekend, which he said was the largest since the start of the war.

"Last night, we took a record amount of oil out from the Hormuz Strait — more than we took out before the war,” Trump told reporters on the White House South Lawn earlier Sunday.

-ABC News' Nicholas Kerr