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President Trump extending the Iran cease fire with the deadline looming.

Iran calls that a ploy to buy time for a surprise strike.

Now, it all happened with the president starting the day, threatening more bombing,

but as he has done more than a half dozen times already, he has not followed through on that and has now extended the ceasefire apparently indefinitely.

With an initial two-week deadline set to end today, yesterday President Trump pushed that back to Wednesday evening Washington time.

That seemed to be predicated on Vice President Vance, the American

negotiating team departing early today for talks with Iran in Islamabad. The president was asked

this morning if the negotiations were going well, would he push back the ceasefire deadline

again? Here's what he said.

I don't want to do that. We don't have that much time because by the time both parties get there,

as you know, they just got the okay to go forward, which I do they were going to do anyway.

I mean, I don't think they had a choice.

They have to negotiate.

You're saying that you need a, at least a prospects for a signed deal today and tomorrow

or else you would resume bombing Iran?

Well, I expect to be bombing because I think that's a better attitude to go in with,

but we're ready to go. I mean, the military is rarer in to go.

But the Vice President, along with Middle East envoy, Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner never

left.

Uncertainty over the peace deal talks grew throughout the day with no public commitment from Iran

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