Trump Extends Energy-Attack Pause, Claims Iran Talks Ongoing (1)

President Donald Trump again pushed back his deadline for Iran to strike a deal with the US or face more attacks, saying talks with the country were going “very well.”

Trump said he would extend by 10 days his pledge to refrain from attacks on Iranian energy sites, his second extension since Saturday’s threat to eviscerate Iran’s power plants in the absence of a deal.

Earlier Thursday, Trump repeated a timeline of four to six weeks for military operations and said the American war effort was “ahead of schedule.”

But the extended deadline allows more time ...