(AL-JAZEERA) The United States and Iran have pressed pause for a second day on what had been an escalating conflict.

Reports on Sunday said neither the U.S. nor Iran had launched strikes for a second day in a row. The sudden period of calm after two weeks of nightly attacks on Iran by the U.S., and Iranian retaliation on U.S. allies in the Gulf comes amid hopes of a return to diplomacy.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz told Fox News on Sunday that President Donald Trump was “giving [the potential for] talks … a little bit of room”.