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President Donald Trump says he’s called off new military strikes on Iran hours after threatening to escalate the 3-month-old war. The president said in a social media post Thursday that he made the move “based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved.” Trump also suggested that progress has been made in talks to extend the fragile ceasefire. Trump on multiple occasions over the last several weeks has claimed that the warring parties have been on a cusp of a deal without anything coming to fruition.