Live Updates: U.S.-Iran negotiations set to begin Monday, Trump says after calling off strikes

What to know about the Iran war today:

President Trump said negotiations with Iran are set to begin Monday after announcing on Saturday that he canceled a pending attack on Iran.

The United States and Israel had been planning what would be one of the harshest bombing campaigns to date against energy infrastructure targets in Iran, multiple sources previously told CBS News.

Mr. Trump said on social media that the deal would "include the Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT, and an end to Iran's nuclear threat." Iran's defense minister said on X that the country was "neither surprised nor passive" and remains on alert.

6:18 PM / August 2, 2026 — Negotiations with Iran set to begin Monday, Trump says: President Trump said Sunday that negotiations with Iran are set to begin Monday afternoon. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Mr. Trump elaborated on the decision to hold off attacks on Iran and again said it would have been the "biggest attacks since World War II." "It would have been disastrous for them and they didn't want us to do it," he said. "The deal is imminent, having to do with the Hormuz Strait and also, ultimately, the denuclearization of Iran."

Iran says transit through the Strait of Hormuz is "not possible": Iran has announced transit through the Strait of Hormuz is "not possible" because of "aggressive actions" from the United States. "Due to the continued aggressive actions of the United States military forces in the region, transit through the Strait of Hormuz is not possible," Iran's Persian Gulf Strait Authority, which was created during the war to oversee management of the strategic waterway, said in a statement Friday.