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WASHINGTON \u2014 Iran will halt its own attacks as long as the United States maintains its latest pause on airstrikes, a senior Iranian official \u200btold Reuters on Sunday, after President Donald Trump abruptly called off his two-week-old bombing campaign.After 13 nights of intensifying U.S. airstrikes on Iran, the Pentagon abruptly suspended the campaign late on Friday, with no U.S. attacks reported on either Saturday or Sunday.Iran, which had been \u200cfollowing each night of U.S. attacks with its own strikes on neighboring countries that host U.S. bases, has also so far held fire for two days.The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, \u2060told Fox News on Sunday that Trump had decided to pause U.S. \u200battacks to allow more time for diplomacy."He's giving talks some space, he's giving \u2060it a little bit of room," Waltz said, without providing further details.The senior Iranian source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters: "Iran's position remains 'attack for attack': \u200cif the attacks stop, Iran will \u200calso halt its operations. That message has already been conveyed to the United States."The source added: "However, Iran is prepared to mount \u2060a broad response should the U.S. launch another attack."Asked about the pause, a senior official in \u2060Trump's administration said on Saturday that the president "has always been clear that his preference is diplomacy, but he has shown Iran what will happen if they fail to come to the table in a serious way."The senior Iranian source said Tehran did not hold much hope that Trump's decision to pause strikes represented a major shift in the U.S. negotiating position."There is more skepticism than optimism about the halt in attacks. The prevailing view is that the pause is tactical rather than genuine. Iran has accumulated enough bitter experience with what it sees as U.S. deception," the \u200csource said.Trump advisers raised concerns about missile defense stocksU.S. forces had been striking Iran nightly in \u200bwhat Washington said was retaliation for Iranian attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran says it aims to retain control of the strait, the world's most important energy shipping route.The two-week-long U.S. military campaign effectively torpedoed last month's interim agreement aimed at ending the war that the United States and Israel launched in February.The New York Times and CNN both reported that Trump had backed off plans to escalate the war with even big
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