Trump says US halted planned attack on Iran after requests from Middle East leaders

Agustin Wazne FXStreet

United States (US) President Donald Trump said on Monday that he has ordered a pause on a planned US military attack scheduled for Tuesday after appeals from Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) leaders. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that "serious negotiations" are now taking place but warned that the US is prepared to "go forward with a full, large scale assault" of Iran if a deal is not reached.

Key takeaways:

Have been asked by Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates to hold off on our planned military attack of Islamic Republic of Iran.
Attack was scheduled for tomorrow.
We will not be doing scheduled attack of Iran tomorrow.
Have instructed military to be ready for full, large scale assault of Iran on a moment's notice, in event that acceptable deal is not reached.”

US Dollar Price Today

The table below shows the percentage change of US Dollar (USD) against listed major currencies today. US Dollar was the strongest against the Japanese Yen.

	USD	EUR	GBP	JPY	CAD	AUD	NZD	CHF
USD		-0.19%	-0.71%	0.10%	-0.05%	-0.18%	-0.52%	-0.25%
EUR	0.19%		-0.54%	0.30%	0.12%	-0.02%	-0.35%	-0.08%
GBP	0.71%	0.54%		0.83%	0.66%	0.54%	0.19%	0.47%
JPY	-0.10%	-0.30%	-0.83%		-0.19%	-0.29%	-0.66%	-0.37%
CAD	0.05%	-0.12%	-0.66%	0.19%		-0.12%	-0.46%	-0.19%
AUD	0.18%	0.02%	-0.54%	0.29%	0.12%		-0.33%	-0.04%
NZD	0.52%	0.35%	-0.19%	0.66%	0.46%	0.33%		0.28%
CHF	0.25%	0.08%	-0.47%	0.37%	0.19%	0.04%	-0.28%

The heat map shows percentage changes of major currencies against each other. The base currency is picked from the left column, while the quote currency is picked from the top row. For example, if you pick the US Dollar from the left column and move along the horizontal line to the Japanese Yen, the percentage change displayed in the box will represent USD (base)/JPY (quote).

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Agustin Wazne

FXStreet

Agustin Wazne joined FXStreet as a Junior News Editor, focusing on Commodities and covering Majors.

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