xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoUnited States President Donald Trump points his finger during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC [File: Evan Vucci/Reuters]By Elizabeth Melimopoulos and ReutersPublished On 30 May 202630 May 2026Prospects for a US-Iran agreement to end the conflict remained uncertain on Friday, with President Donald Trump saying he would make a “final determination” on a deal, while Iranian officials stressed that no understanding had yet been reached.
Iran’s chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said Tehran would judge any agreement by actions rather than words, adding that no steps would be taken unless Washington acted first.
Meanwhile, fighting continued elsewhere in the region. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli forces had advanced beyond Lebanon’s Litani River, as Israeli attacks across Lebanon on Friday left dozens more civilians reportedly killed or wounded.