Iran's footballers took to the training pitch in front of journalists Thursday at their base camp in Mexico, giving the world its first glimpse of a team whose participation in the World Cup has been clouded by war with the United States.

After having moved their training camp to Tijuana from the planned base in Arizona, the squad has said very little since arriving for the tournament last Sunday.

For Thursday's training session, journalists were given fifteen minutes to see a small group of players as they ran through warm-up exercises.

Tehran said Friday it had not reached a final decision on a deal to end the Middle East war, despite US President Donald Trump claiming an agreement could be signed in days and cancelling threatened strikes on Iran.

Trump's statements fueled a stock market rally and tanked oil prices, again spurring hopes a resolution was nearing in the war triggered by US-Israeli strikes in February.

By Nate Raymond

BOSTON, June 11 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday allowed an Iranian-born engineer to be released on bail just days before his trial on charges linked to a deadly drone attack on a U.S. military base in Jordan carried out by Iran-backed militants in 2024.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston had previously declined to release Mahdi Sadeghi, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen, from custody, citing the risk he might flee to avoid trial. He is charged with conspiracy to illegally procure technology used in a navigation system for Iran's military drones.

June 11 (Reuters) - Iran has not yet made a final decision on a possible agreement with the U.S. and will not compromise on its "red lines" in negotiations, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Thursday, according to Iran's IRNA ​news agency.

Baghaei said reports regarding a time and place of signing the agreement remained speculative and that nothing had been finalized. He added that a large part of the negotiating text had been finalized but the U.S. repeatedly changed its positions during the talks.

WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he believed Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei had approved a deal with the U.S. that would trigger the opening of the Strait of Hormuz and the lifting of a U.S. blockade on Iranian ports.

When asked by a reporter at the White House whether Khamenei had approved the deal, Trump said: "I understand the answer is yes."

Trump described the deal as "a very strong memorandum of understanding," adding it was "a little conceptual, but it's something that's going to get done".

WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a threatened U.S. military operation against Kharg Island was off the table for now as he girded for what could be an agreement with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

(Reporting by Steve Holland;Editing by David Ljunggren)

WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday the Strait of Hormuz would be opened as soon as a "great settlement" of the war in Iran was signed, an event he said he expected would happen within days.

"We just made a great settlement of the war with Iran", Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

"The strait will officially open as soon as we sign, which could be soon, very soon, maybe over the weekend in Europe," he said.

(Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk, Katharine Jackson;Editing by David Ljunggren)

By Robbie Corey-Boulet and Giulia Paravicini

DAKAR/NAIROBI, June 11 (Reuters) - The Trump administration plans to deport a number of Iranians and other migrants to Central African Republic, a chronically unstable country racked by violence and poverty, two lawyers and an official briefed on the matter told Reuters.

The Iranians include two women who face potential torture and persecution if they are forced to go back to Iran, their lawyer, Emily Trostle, said. One is a Christian convert and the other is a pro-democracy activist, she added.

WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said he has canceled planned strikes against Iran on Thursday, hours after threatening more bombings and a desire to "take" oil export hub Kharg Island.

"Based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved, I have, as President of the United States of America, cancelled the scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran this evening," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

By Patricia Zengerle

WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) - Dozens of U.S. lawmakers urged President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday to roll back any plans to ship to unsafe third countries Afghan nationals who worked with U.S. forces during the war in their homeland.

In a letter seen by Reuters, more than 80 House of Representatives members, including at least three Republicans as well as Democrats, appealed to Secretary of State Marco Rubio to reconsider plans for 1,100 Afghans who have been stranded in Qatar awaiting relocation.