US president offers no clear answer on truce status with Iran

<article data-history-node-id="439593" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-president-offers-no-clear-answer-truce-status-iran" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-president-offers-no-clear-answer-truce-status-iran" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">US president offers no clear answer on truce status with Iran</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><section data-scroll-anchor="false" data-testid="conversation-turn-194" data-turn="assistant" data-turn-id="request-69f45dd3-8d4c-83eb-b79d-1544f51fcc2d-66" dir="auto"> <p data-end="571" data-start="332">US President Donald Trump says Washington is assessing reports of incidents involving commercial vessels near the Strait of Hormuz, declining to confirm whether the ceasefire has been breached.</p> <p data-end="659" data-start="573">Asked by US media if the truce remained intact, Trump responded: “We’ll let you know.”</p> <p data-end="936" data-start="774">“Ships are moving. You know, we moved quite a few last night – big ones. There was no firing. I guess there has been some recently. I’m looking into it,” he said.</p> <p data-end="1017" data-start="938">Trump added that the continuation of the ceasefire would be in Iran’s interest.</p> <p data-end="1159" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="1019">He said Iran “better hope [the ceasefire] remains in effect” and that “the best thing that can happen to them is that we keep it in effect”.</p> </section> </div> </div> </article>