"U.S. Marines have custody of the vessel," Trump said.
President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military and government sites.
After initial U.S.-Iran talks in Pakistan failed to reach a peace deal, Trump announced Sunday, April 19, that U.S. negotiators would head back to Islamabad Monday for a new round.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Vice President JD Vance would accompany special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, to Islamabad for the talks.
Iran's continuing blockage of the Strait of Hormuz and their alleged refusal to abandon their nuclear program remain key sticking points in negotiations, according to Trump.
At least 13 people were killed and 70 others were injured in an Israeli strike on the southern Lebanese city of Tyre last night, shortly before the ceasefire went into effect, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health.
Nearly 2,300 people have been killed and over 7,500 have been injured in Israeli strikes on Lebanon, according to the ministry.
-ABC News' Ghazi Balkiz
President Donald Trump said he believes U.S. and Iran peace talks will "probably take place over the weekend," telling Axios that he thinks a deal could be secured "in the next day or two."
"The Iranians want to meet. They want to make a deal. I think a meeting will probably take place over the weekend. I think we will get a deal in the next day or two," Trump reportedly said.
The president also said he is "not gonna allow" Israel to bomb Lebanon, following Thursday's announcement of a 10-day ceasefire between the two countries.
"Israel has to stop. They can't continue to blow buildings up. I am not gonna allow it," Trump said, according to Axios.
-ABC News' Emily Chang
Iran has agreed to an “unlimited” suspension of their nuclear ambitions, President Donald Trump said in a phone interview with Bloomberg on Friday.
“No years, unlimited,” Trump reportedly said when asked if Iran agreed to 20 years or an indefinite suspension.
The president also said the U.S. will not release any frozen Iranian funds, according to Bloomberg.
A second round of in-person peace talks will “probably” take place this weekend, Trump said, though no specific date or time was disclosed.
While Vice President JD Vance led the U.S. delegation in last week’s peace talks, Trump is now saying he has not decided if Vance will attend future negotiations, telling Bloomberg that Vance is “good” but that he hasn’t “made that determination yet.”
The president continued to project confidence over the prospect of a deal being secured between the U.S. and Iran, telling Bloomberg that “most of the main points are finalized.”
"It’ll go pretty quickly," Trump reportedly said when asked if a deal with Iran had been finalized.
The U.S. and Iran will work together to get the enriched uranium from Iran and bring it back to America, President Donald Trump told Reuters in a phone interview Friday.
"We're going to get it together. We're going to go in with Iran, at a nice leisurely pace, and go down and start excavating with big machinery ... We'll bring it back to the United States," Trump said, according to Reuters.
According to the article, the president did not expand on exactly who would retrieve that nuclear material and how, raising questions about whether such an operation might call for ground troops.
