{"id":22925,"date":"2026-05-18T21:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-says-he-will-hold-off-on-iran-attacks-at-request-of-gulf-states\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T21:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:22:07","slug":"trump-says-he-will-hold-off-on-iran-attacks-at-request-of-gulf-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-says-he-will-hold-off-on-iran-attacks-at-request-of-gulf-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he will hold off on Iran attacks at request of Gulf states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump will hold off on attacking Iran again at the request of leaders from Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, he announced on Monday. Trump in a Truth Social post, said the strike was scheduled for Tuesday, but he was asked to hold off because &ldquo;serious negotiations are now taking place&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5883645-trump-holds-off-iran-attack\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump will hold off on attacking Iran again at the request of leaders from Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, he announced on Monday. Trump in a Truth Social post, said the strike was scheduled for Tuesday, but he was asked to hold off because &ldquo;serious negotiations are now taking place&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}