President Donald Trump emerged Friday from a two-hour Situation Room meeting with no update on the “final determination” he had promised on Iran, according to a White House official.
The meeting came after Trump laid out a sweeping set of conditions for an agreement to end an unpopular conflict that has disrupted the global economy.
“The Situation Room meeting has concluded and lasted approximately two hours,” said the official, granted anonymity to share details of the meeting. “President Trump will only make a deal that is good for America and satisfies his redlines. Iran can never possess a nuclear weapon.”
Conditions laid out by Trump in a Truth Social post earlier Friday included demands that Iran agree to never have a nuclear weapon, immediately open the Strait of Hormuz without restrictions or tolls and remove whatever mines from the strategic waterway that the U.S. had not already removed. Trump also addressed the enriched uranium buried at sites struck by U.S. B-2 bombers last year, saying the material would be excavated jointly by the U.S. and Iran, with International Atomic Energy Agency oversight, and destroyed.
The U.S. and Iran had been closing in this week on a 60-day memorandum of understanding to extend the ceasefire and set up further nuclear talks, though Trump had yet to sign off. Over the weekend, Trump announced on Truth Social that a peace agreement had “been largely negotiated,” with only the “final aspects” left for discussion.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment on the prospects for an agreement after the Situation Room meeting.
Even as the White House has projected confidence that a deal is near, the ceasefire has shown significant strain as the two countries engaged in a series of tit-for-tat exchanges. U.S. Central Command on Thursday accused Iran of an “egregious ceasefire violation” after Iranian forces launched a ballistic missile toward Kuwait, which was intercepted, and five drones near the Strait of Hormuz, all of which U.S. forces shot down.
Trump during a Wednesday Cabinet meeting expressed optimism that a deal would be reached soon, though he added that “maybe we have to go back and finish it” with military might instead of diplomatic negotiations.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that the roughly 50,000 U.S. troops across the region remain ready to resume hostilities if called upon.