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The clock that was ticking toward a dramatic new escalation in the Iran war may now be counting down to a deal that would end it.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the latest stunning turn of events delivered by President Donald Trump\u2019s social media account.<\/p>\n
Trump announced Monday that he was postponing his threatened military strikes against Iranian power plants for at least five days, hours ahead of his deadline for Tehran to reopen the crucial Strait of Hormuz shipping route.<\/p>\n
He said the U.S. and Iran were in \u201cproductive\u201d talks toward a \u201ccomplete and total\u201d resolution of the war, though Tehran denied any direct talks. <\/p>\n
Follow live updates <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Now in its fourth week, the conflict has consumed the Middle East, pushed up the prices of energy and food and threatened the global economy with a far-reaching crisis. <\/p>\n Trump\u2019s reversal delays what many feared would be a significant new escalation for civilians across the region.<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s Foreign Affairs Ministry appeared to counter Trump\u2019s version of events, though, saying in a statement published by the semiofficial news agency Mehr News that there was \u201cno dialogue between Tehran and Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n It said Trump\u2019s delay was \u201cpart of efforts to reduce energy prices and buy time to implement his military plans\u201d but acknowledged \u201cthere are initiatives from regional countries to reduce tensions.\u201d Iranian state media said Trump had \u201cbacked down\u201d after Iran vowed swift retaliation for any attacks on its energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The clock that was ticking toward a dramatic new escalation in the Iran war may…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":49774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-editors-pick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decentwealthsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decentwealthsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decentwealthsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decentwealthsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/decentwealthsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decentwealthsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decentwealthsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decentwealthsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decentwealthsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}