President Donald Trump on Thursday insisted that he had secured a deal that would prohibit Iran from possessing nuclear weapons after calling off planned strikes on Iran the same day.

"Most importantly, we have a deal that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, which was the whole purpose of what we had to go through to get this," Trump said, adding that a deal signing would occur "soon."

Trump renewed strikes on Iran this week after Tehran's forces shot down an Apache helicopter. The nominal ceasefire, which persisted for weeks saw intermittent flare-ups of live-fire exchanges between nearly every combatant.

The president had planned to move forward with additional strikes on Thursday and openly floated the seizure of Iran's Kharg Island if the government did not agree to a deal. He called off those strikes on Thursday, asserting that an agreement had been reached.

The Iranian government has not confirmed any plans to sign an accord as of press time.

Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent for Just the News. Follow him on X.