President Donald Trump declared this Saturday that he is "losing faith" in negotiations with Iran, while accusing Tehran of lying and acting contrary to what it says at the negotiating table, according to reported Fox News from Tel Aviv.
Trump reported that while he was waiting for news from the negotiator Steve Witkoff regarding the progress of the talks, he received a call from the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth informing him that Iran had launched five missiles at a U.S. base in Jordan.
"I was waiting for Steve to call. How are the negotiations going? Instead, I received a call from Pete telling me that they had just fired five missiles at one of our bases in Jordan," the leader stated.
"I am losing faith in them because they lie and distort," Trump stated, referencing that attack — whose projectiles were intercepted according to U.S. Central Command — as concrete evidence of Iran's double standards.
The statements come amid a simultaneous escalation on several fronts. Kuwait reported Iranian drone attacks in the early hours of this Saturday, with no confirmed casualties.
At the same time, Iran attempted to attack two oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz: one suffered damage and the other was nearly hit, which caused a brief spike in oil prices.
Several U.S. embassies in the region issued security alerts urging citizens to leave the area or to avoid traveling there, citing the risk of airspace closures and the possibility of unforeseen escalation.
The Embassy in Jordan specifically warned about the threat of Iranian attacks against military bases in that country.
The current tensions mark the final chapter of a diplomatic and military cycle that has repeated itself throughout 2026.
Trump ordered to stop the bombings on July 27 to pave the way for new talks, but two days later, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed a new ballistic missile attack against U.S. positions in Jordan.
The pattern has been repeated since February: rounds of negotiations with mediators in Geneva, Doha, and Islamabad, announcements of provisional agreements, and subsequent collapses. In June, Trump even announced a "great deal" with Iran to end the conflict, but the outcomes remained unstable.
On July 8, he declared the truce over and closed the door to new discussions, only to reopen dialogue weeks later.
The Strait of Hormuz, through which approximately 20% of the world's oil flows, has been a recurring pressure point that Iran has used as leverage throughout the crisis.
The correspondent for Fox News in Tel Aviv, Steve Harrigan, summed up the state of affairs with a phrase that reflects the general sentiment in the region: "It is clear that tensions are escalating in anticipation of possible large-scale attacks."
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