US President Trump tells N12 News that he is is no hurry to resume the war

• "I'm in no hurry to go anywhere. We're crippling their economy," the president declared. Trump added: "The Iranian leadership doesn't have the sense of urgency that I thought there would be. But they want a deal more than at any point since the beginning of the war."
• On the other hand, some of Trump's advisers argue that he needs to resume the war to "finish the job." This position is supported by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is applying pressure to do so.
• According to the sources, Trump is interested at this stage - to let the negotiations exhaust themselves and does not want Israel to interfere. If they fail, of course, this could change significantly. Netanyahu, for his part, is concerned about the ongoing negotiations.
• The third option, which some of the president's advisers are proposing, is to continue the blockade and sanctions and strangle the Iranian regime economically.

De-escalation signalling from the principal decision maker in an active conflict of this kind has historically followed a recognisable pattern: the risk premium built into crude, freight and insurance, and gold tends to bleed out gradually rather than gap away, because ceasefire rhetoric in this conflict has repeatedly preceded renewed escalation, and the market has been conditioned to fade single headlines until force posture actually changes. The distinction worth drawing is between the three paths on the table, resumed strikes, exhausted negotiations, and a prolonged economic blockade, since each transmits differently: strikes reprice the Strait of Hormuz and supply disruption tail, a blockade keeps sanctions enforcement and shadow fleet dynamics as the slow burning constraint on Iranian barrels, and negotiations cap both. The internal split described here, an impatient ally pressing for escalation against a president content to let sanctions bite, is a familiar configuration in this relationship, and allied unilateral action independent of Washington has been the historical spoiler of US managed pauses. The tells are whether Israeli operations continue regardless, whether talks produce anything verifiable, and whether sanctions enforcement rhetoric translates into designations and interdictions. Until then, remarks of this kind are a ceiling on the geopolitical premium rather than a floor under it.