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Iran live updates: Trump says no 'time pressure' to secure deal, Americans should expect higher gas prices 'for a little while'

PHOTO: President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a Health Care Affordability event in the Oval Office at the White House, in Washington, April 23, 2026.
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Video shows gunmen seizing commercial ships, Iran says
By David Brennan, Emily Shapiro, Leah Sarnoff, Nadine El-Bawab, Meredith Deliso
Last Updated: April 23, 2026, 10:39 PM

President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military, government and infrastructure sites.

Following the announcement of a two-week ceasefire, initial U.S.-Iran talks in Pakistan earlier this month failed to reach a peace deal. On Tuesday, Trump announced he was extending the ceasefire and continuing the blockade until Iran's proposal is submitted and discussions are concluded "one way or the other."

Key Headlines

  • Trump says he has no 'time pressure' on deal
  • Talks between Israel, Lebanon to be held at the White House
  • Israel waiting for 'green light' from US to resume the war with Iran, Katz says
  • CENTCOM says 33 ships have been turned around in blockade
Here's how the news is developing.

Apr 23, 2026 10:39 PM

'We hope' no firing during Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, Trump says

Moments after announcing an extended ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, President Donald Trump said "we hope" there's three weeks of "no firing" between the two countries.

"But they do have Hezbollah to think about, and we're going to be working with Lebanon to get things straightened out in that country," he said during surprise remarks from the Oval Office while flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance.

Trump also said he expects the president of Lebanon and the prime minister of Israel to come to the White House "over the next couple of weeks" while the ceasefire is in place, though he did not provide any specifics of such potential travel.

Trump expressed his hope that the Israel-Lebanon conflict will get "worked out simultaneously with what we're doing in Iran."

-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart, Isabella Murray and Emily Chang


Apr 23, 2026 9:44 PM

Trump says Israel-Lebanon ceasefire extended by 3 weeks

Israel and Lebanon will extend their ceasefire by three weeks, President Donald Trump announced on social media.

"I look forward in the near future to hosting the Prime Minister of Israel, Bibi Netanyahu, and the President of Lebanon, Joseph Aoun,” Trump wrote.

This comes after a second round of talks between Israel and Lebanon took place at the White House on Thursday.

Exactly one week ago, Trump announced a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.

-ABC News' Emily Chang


Apr 23, 2026 9:26 PM

Trump says he has no 'time pressure' on deal

PHOTO: President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a Health Care Affordability event in the Oval Office at the White House, in Washington, April 23, 2026.
Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a Health Care Affordability event in the Oval Office at the White House, in Washington, April 23, 2026.
Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images


President Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday that he is not facing any "time pressure" to secure a deal with Iran.

When asked how long he was willing to wait, Trump responded, "Don't rush me."

"I don't want to rush myself, you know, because every story says, 'Oh, Trump is under time pressure.' I'm not. No, no," Trump said. "You know who’s under time pressure? They are. Because if they don't get their oil moving, their whole oil infrastructure is going to explode. You know what that means, because they have no place to store it."

As for how long Americans should expect to pay higher gas prices, Trump said, "For a little while."

-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart and Emily Chang



Apr 23, 2026 7:07 PM

Talks between Israel, Lebanon to be held at the White House

Direct peace talks between Israel and Lebanon at the ambassador level will now be held at the White House, according to a U.S. official.

"President Trump will greet both representatives upon their arrival," according to a U.S. official.


Apr 22, 2026 6:57 PM

Iran has 'thousands' of missiles and drones left

The Defense Intelligence Agency chief told lawmakers that Iran still has an enormous stockpile of munitions, even after the constant bombardment throughout the war until the ceasefire.

“Iran retains thousands of missiles and one-way attack UAVs that can threaten U.S. and partner forces throughout the region, despite degradations to its capabilities from both attrition and expenditure,” Marine Lt. Gen. James Adams, told lawmakers last week.

PHOTO: Remnants of an Iranian missile are pictured near the border between the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights and Syria, April 9, 2026.
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Remnants of an Iranian missile are pictured near the border between the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights and Syria, April 9, 2026.
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He added that Iran’s conventional military remains hampered by aging equipment and limited training, likely pushing Tehran to lean even harder into asymmetric tactics. That includes the kind of low-cost drone threats now looming over the Strait of Hormuz, a reminder that Iran can still create outsized disruption through cheap tools.

Those tactics also include cyberattacks.

“Before the current conflict, Iran largely refrained from cyberattacks against the United States, except for a handful of low level disruptive attacks,” Adams said. “However, on 11 March, we observed Iran’s first destructive cyberattack against a U.S. company since 2014, when Iranian cyberattacks conducted a data-deletion attack against a U.S. medical company. Iran almost certainly will continue using cyberattack.”

PHOTO: Iranians walk past a poster of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei in a street in Tehran, Iran, April 22, 2026.
Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA/Shutterstock
Iranians walk past a poster of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei in a street in Tehran, Iran, April 22, 2026.
Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA/Shutterstock

Adams was likely referring to when an Iranian-linked group hacked Stryker, a Michigan-based medical company. The day after the cyber-attack, Stryker pushed out a statement urging its tools were safe, including the Mako Surgical Robot, a robotic arm that assists in joint replacement surgeries and the LIFEPAK 35, a life support monitor/defibrillator.

Earlier this month, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned that Iran-linked cyber groups had targeted systems tied to local municipalities, as well as water and energy networks. In an advisory, the agency said organizations across multiple critical infrastructure sectors had suffered disruptions through “malicious interactions with the project files” and the manipulation of data.

Iran’s defense budget last year was $16.8 billion, which is about 4.2% of its GDP, according to Adams.

-ABC News' Steve Beynon


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