President Donald Trump says there is “no time pressure” on his extension to the ceasefire with Iran, Fox News reported on Wednesday, signalling a softening of urgency one day after the White House confirmed an indefinite extension.
According to Fox presenter Martha MacCallum, Trump told her in a phone call he was “not in a rush” to end the conflict and wanted “a good deal.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the same day that negotiations “are ongoing” and that Trump had “made his red lines very clear” to the Iranians — chief among them a demand that Tehran turn over its stockpile of enriched uranium to the United States.
Washington was “waiting to hear back from the Iranian regime”, Leavitt added, saying Tehran “cannot send a unified message yet, which is why the President decided to extend the ceasefire.”
The remarks mark a shift from the tight-window framing of recent days, when a 36- to 72-hour deadline floated by the White House and a three-to-five day window reported by Axios had driven oil markets. Trump’s comments now decouple the military ceasefire from any published deadline while US maritime pressure on Iran-linked shipping and the Hormuz blockade continue.
Iran has separately confirmed that the first toll revenue from ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz has been deposited into its Central Bank, indicating Tehran is formalising an alternative enforcement regime regardless of the diplomatic state of play.
Source: Ada Derana (citing BBC/Fox News).
