Despite three consecutive nights of U.S. airstrikes on Iranian military sites and Iranian retaliation against Bahrain and two tankers linked to the United Arab Emirates, President Donald Trump said a negotiated resolution remains possible. Speaking in the Oval Office after the latest strikes, Trump claimed that a tentative agreement had been reached two days earlier but that Iranian representatives then refused to finalize it, demanding further talks. His comments followed earlier U.S. strikes targeting multiple Iranian ports and facilities, and Iranian missile and drone strikes that killed one mariner and wounded eight others, according to the UAE. Iran’s foreign ministry had previously described a June memorandum underpinning negotiations as being in crisis.