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'Finger on trigger': Trump has not decided on large-scale attacks against Iran, sources tell 'Post'
'We're locked and loaded,' Trump told reporters on Friday about the possibility of continuing the attacks against Iran, while no new strikes were reported during the day. The order marked the first interruption in nearly two weeks of sustained US military operations against Iranian targets. During the previous 13 days, Trump had approved strike plans presented by military officials each afternoon, with the attacks generally carried out within hours, Axios reported earlier on Saturday. Trump received another proposed strike plan on Friday but declined to authorize it, instead instructing the military not to launch new attacks, two sources familiar with the decision told Axios. The pause reflected Trump's willingness to provide additional space for diplomacy, according to the report. It also suggested that the administration believed the current scale of attacks had reached the limit of what it could achieve without a return to significantly broader combat operations.