{"id":975,"date":"2026-05-23T00:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/2026\/05\/23\/trump-skips-sons-wedding-amid-reported-iran-strike-preparations\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T00:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:47:18","slug":"trump-skips-sons-wedding-amid-reported-iran-strike-preparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=975","title":{"rendered":"Trump skips son\u2019s wedding amid reported Iran strike preparations"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US president said he must remain at the White House due to \u201ccircumstances pertaining to Government\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>US President Donald Trump has abruptly canceled plans to attend his son Donald Trump Jr.\u2019s wedding this weekend, saying he must remain in Washington due to unspecified\u00a0\u201ccircumstances pertaining to government.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The Trump administration was preparing for a fresh round of military strikes against Iran, but no final decision had been made, CBS News reported on Friday, citing sources with direct knowledge of the planning.<\/p>\n

Axios reported that Trump convened his senior national security team on Friday morning to discuss Iran, including the state of negotiations and possible scenarios if talks collapse. Vice President J.D. Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other officials reportedly attended the meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel it is important for me to remain in Washington, D.C., at the White House during this important period of time,\u201d<\/em> Trump wrote in a cryptic message on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

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Trump had hinted at the reason on Thursday, telling reporters that the wedding was \u201cnot good timing\u201d<\/em> because of \u201ca thing called Iran and other things.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The White House has changed Trump\u2019s weekend schedule as Washington awaits Tehran\u2019s response to what CBS described as the \u201cfinal\u201d<\/em> US proposal to end the nearly three-month war. The offer was reportedly transmitted to Iran on Wednesday with a warning that rejecting it would mean the resumption of strikes.<\/p>\n

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said before flying to India that the US expected to receive Iran\u2019s response through Pakistan, which has acted as an intermediary. Axios reported that Pakistani Field Marshal Asim Munir traveled to Tehran on Friday, while a Qatari delegation also arrived to support the mediation effort.<\/p>\n

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Trump has grown increasingly frustrated with the negotiations in recent days and, according to Axios, has raised the possibility of a final \u201cdecisive\u201d<\/em> major military operation, after which he could declare victory and end the war.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned this week that any renewed US or Israeli attacks could widen the conflict beyond the Middle East, promising \u201ccrushing blows\u201d<\/em> in places Washington and West Jerusalem \u201ccannot even imagine.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry said on Friday that talks were ongoing but that a deal was not close. A source close to Tehran\u2019s negotiating team told Tasnim that the current focus remained on ending the war and that no other issue would be negotiated until that was achieved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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