Fighting between Iran and US 'likely' to resume, Iranian military says

A RESUMPTION OF fighting in the US-Israeli war with Iran is “likely”, according to a senior Iranian military official, even after President Donald Trump told the US Congress that hostilities had “terminated”. 

Trump yesterday dismissed the latest Iranian proposal aimed at ending the conflict, saying he was “not satisfied”. 

“At this moment I’m not satisfied with what they’re offering,” Trump told reporters, blaming stalled talks on “tremendous discord” within Iran’s leadership.

Trump said he would prefer to reach an agreement and not “blast the hell out of them and finish them forever”

Today, Mohammad Jafar Asadi of the Iranian military’s central command centre said:

“A renewed conflict between Iran and the United States is likely, and evidence has shown that the United States is not committed to any promises or agreements.”

Iran’s judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said yesterday that his country had “never shied away from negotiations,” but added it would not accept “imposition” of peace terms while seeking to avoid renewed conflict.

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Trump told top US Congress yesterday that hostilities with Iran had ended, after coming under pressure to seek authorisation for the conflict as it headed into its third month.

“There has been no exchange of fire between United States Forces and Iran since 7 April 2026. The hostilities that began on 28 February 2026, have terminated,” he wrote in letters to House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate president pro tempore Chuck Grassley.

Under US law, a president must receive congressional approval within 60 days of notifying Congress of military action, or else end hostilities.

Yesterday, Johnson said the US was not at war with Iran.

Meanwhile, Trump has said the US Navy is acting “like pirates” as he described an operation seizing a ship amid the tit-for-tat American blockade of Iranian ports.

“We… land on top of it and we took over the ship. We took over the cargo, took over the oil. It’s a very profitable business,” Trump told a rally in Florida.

“We’re like pirates,” he added to cheers from the crowd. “We’re sort of like pirates. But we’re not playing games.”

With reporting from AFP