President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States is not in a hurry to reach a deal with Iran, ABC News reported from a Halloween event at Mar-a-Lago¹.

ABC News said talks remain stalled despite a June memorandum of understanding aimed at ending a war that began with joint U.S.-Israeli strikes in February¹. Trump said, "We're not in that much of a hurry," citing damage he said U.S. forces had already inflicted on Iranian military equipment¹.

Iranian state media cited by ABC News said a Qatari delegation arrived in Tehran to continue mediation¹. Al Jazeera, in an Oct. 26 live blog, reported that Iran hosted Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials and that Saudi Arabia's Foreign Ministry stressed opening negotiation channels to prevent a return to military escalation².

Al Jazeera said White House officials described Trump as holding options but not launching new strikes on Iran before U.S. midterm elections². ABC News separately reported that the IRGC Navy claimed three tankers exploded in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, claims it said were not verified, and that the U.S. military has called past IRGC mine claims false¹.

On a related front, Arab News reported the Saudi-led coalition said it destroyed Houthi missile launchers in Sanaa after intercepting a missile toward Riyadh, as King Khalid International Airport began a partial reopening after an Oct. 10 strike that killed 13 people³.

Al-Monitor reported Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said the group had again struck the airport with a ballistic missile after flights resumed, a claim the coalition described as intercepted⁴. The two sides' accounts of what hit the airport, and with what effect, are not independently confirmed in these reports^3,4.

What remains unknown is whether Qatari mediation or the Tehran meetings produce a U.S.-Iran agreement, and whether the pause Trump described lasts past the U.S. election^1,2.