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Middle East crisis live: Trump claims Iran attack ‘on hold’ due to request from Gulf allies

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Middle East crisis live: Trump claims Iran attack ‘on hold’ due to request from Gulf allies

The US president said he called off a planned attack on Iran on Tuesday so that peace talks could continue

As we have been reporting, Tehran wants Washington to pressure Israel into stopping its war on Lebanon as part of a deal to end the US-Israeli war on Iran.

But the US has so far seemed reluctant to exert any real pressure on Israel to stop its continued attacks on southern Lebanon despite a recently extended ceasefire and with Lebanon and Israel set to resume diplomatic talks at the beginning of June.

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Originally reported by The Guardian