‘GOOD CONVERSATIONS’: Trump orders Department of War to postpone military strikes on Iran power plants

President Donald J. Trump bids farewell to Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on the South Portico of the White House after a dinner in the the State Dining Room, Thursday, March 19, 2026. (Official White House photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

President Donald Trump early Monday ordered the U.S. Department of War to postpone all military strikes against Iranian power plants for a five-day period due to what he called “good and productive conversations with the regime running the Islamic Republic.