"He is giving diplomacy every chance we possibly can before going back to hostilities, but he is absolutely prepared to do that," Waltz told the ABC broadcaster.
US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz said that negotiations with Iran were ongoing.
"Those negotiations [with Iran] and that diplomacy is ongoing, so we will see what they come back with," Waltz told the ABC broadcaster.
On February 28, the US and Israel began striking targets in Iran, including Tehran. Iran carried out retaliatory strikes on Israeli territory, as well as on US military facilities in the Middle East. On April 7, Washington and Tehran declared a ceasefire. Subsequent talks in Islamabad ended inconclusively, with no resumption of hostilities reported, but the US began a blockade of Iranian ports.