Iran latest: Trump's holding pattern on war sparks concern among allies
President Donald Trump's holding pattern on the Iran war has sparked concern among allies and opponents that he's put himself in a bind.
It's been a week since U.S. and Iranian negotiators reached a tentative agreement to extend the ceasefire in the conflict by 60 days and start a new round of talks on Iran’s nuclear program. But Trump has called for changes he hasn't specified, and Iranian officials don't appear willing to give in.
Meanwhile, the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, keeping global energy prices high and adding to economic anxieties worldwide.
Here's the latest:
Trump: Negotiations became ‘boring’
Trump reacts after military action halted in Iran
President Trump is sounding off after House lawmakers approved a war powers resolution to stop military action in Iran. In a post on Truth Social the president called the Act meaningless.
After a string of reports this week that Iran was shutting down talks, Trump told CNBC he "couldn't care less" if the negotiations had bogged down and even mused they had become "boring."
"We're going to win one way or another," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office this week.
US President Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, June 3, 2026. Photographer: Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images
He's buffeted by Democrats seizing on oil prices and warnings from hawkish members of his base that an early exit from the conflict would amount to capitulation.
Trump is privately hearing from other Republican lawmakers as well as Pentagon officials and Gulf allies that a return to the bombing campaign is a bad idea.
RELATED: US responds after stopping Iranian attacks in Bahrain, Kuwait
Those advising against returning to military action note that the U.S. has burned through munitions at too fast a rate. It could take three years to replenish some key weapons systems.
Meanwhile, Gulf allies are worried Iran will retaliate against them and their critical infrastructure and energy interests and further set back their economies.
Only US, China can retrieve Iran's enriched uranium, Trump says
Nuclear watchdog unable to fully monitor Iran
Andrea Stricker with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies joins LiveNOW's Austin Westfall to discuss new reporting from the Associated Press on the UN's nuclear watchdog being unable to inspect nuclear facilities in Iran.
President Trump said Thursday that the U.S. and China are the only two countries with the capabilities to retrieve enriched uranium from Iran’s buried nuclear sites, Fox News Digital reports.
"We attacked their nuclear sites and they were obliterated," he told reporters in the Oval Office. "But the only ones that have the capability of getting it out are us and China."
"We’re the only ones with that kind of equipment that’s powerful enough to go down that deep into a mountain, but that mountain crushed it."
"That mountain literally collapsed on top of it."
The Source: This report includes information from The Associated Press and Fox News Digital.