Test emergency alert to sound; Iran will halt strikes if US pause bombing

Dubai: Iran will halt its own attacks as long as the US does the same, a senior Iranian official said.

The US pressed pause on its bombing campaign after President Donald Trump’s advisers told him they were running out of targets and expressed worries about depleting the US arsenal.

After 13 nights of intensifying US airstrikes on Iran, the Pentagon suspended the campaign late on Friday, with no US attacks reported on either Saturday or Sunday.

Iran, which had been following each night of US attacks with its own strikes on neighbouring countries that host US bases, has also so far held fire for two days.

The Iranian official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that Tehran’s position remains that if the attacks stop, Iran will also halt its operations. “That message has already been conveyed to the United States,” the official said.

The US ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, told US media on Sunday that Trump had decided to pause attacks to allow more time for diplomacy.

Reuters