Israel has cancelled air strikes on Lebanon at the request of Donald Trump, as he tries to bring Iran back to the negotiating table.

President Trump downplayed the potential collapse of peace talks with Iran, telling CNBC the negotiations "started to get very boring."

Negotiations were suspended because of Israel's escalating military attacks in Lebanon and U.S. strikes, an Iranian official told The Post.

Is the Iran war headed for a stalemate? A week after President Donald Trump signaled that a provisional peace deal with Iran was in the offing, the pendulum has swung back the other way — raising fresh questions about how quickly the global economic upheaval and ongoing paroxysms of Middle East violence might subside.

Iran halted indirect talks with the United States over Israel's intensifying military campaign in Lebanon, an Iranian state news agency reported, signaling a possible breakdown in diplomatic efforts to end the three-month-old war.

U.S. President Donald Trump ⁠said ⁠on Monday that talks ⁠with Iran were ongoing, despite a report that ​Tehran had suspended indirect negotiations with the United States to end ‌hostilities. "Talks are continuing,

Monday morning started off with a wee-hours Truth Social pep talk from the president, where he dismissed the “chirping” of dissent and urged Americans to “just sit back and relax” amid increasingly stressful circumstances surrounding the Iran war.

Trump says Iran talks are moving “rapidly” despite reports that Tehran paused negotiations amid Israel-Hezbollah clashes.