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President Donald Trump said in a social media post on Wednesday that Iran has released a wrongfully detained American citizen – and added that the U.S. “appreciates this gesture of Goodwill by Iran!”

Trump said the woman was wrongfully detained in December 2024 but has now been allowed to leave the country.

Trump added that, “She is now safely outside of Iran, and in good condition.”

In a statement, the woman’s lawyer identified her as Dena Karari, a U.S.-Iranian citizen who the lawyer said “has been trapped in Iran on bogus charges of collaboration with a hostile state and espionage.”

The lawyer’s statement added: “While subject to a coercive exit ban, she was interrogated dozens of times by Iran’s notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and although never physically detained, she suffered enormous physical and psychological hardship.”

The lawyer said Karari ran a U.S. nonprofit called the Children of Mehr Foundation.

Trump’s announcement came as the U.S. and Iran have continued strikes.

“The United States of America appreciates this gesture of Goodwill by Iran,” Trump added in the post.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Iran still wants to talk when pressed about the current state of talks on Thursday.

“Iran very much continues to talk to the United States of America and expressed that they want to make a deal with us because they are suffering devastating blows on behalf of our United States military,” Leavitt said.

Leavitt confirmed that thousands of U.S. servicemembers are positioned in the region to continue enforcing the U.S. blockade of Iran’s ports and ships.

“More than 10,000 U.S. sailors, Marines, and airmen, along with two aircraft carriers and more than 20 warships and dozens of aircraft, are executing the blockade mission as we speak,” she said.

“US CENTCOM has redirected two compliant commercial vessels and disabled one non-compliant vessel. So, look, the strait is open for ships that are not traveling to and from Iranian ports,” she said.

Iran claims it targeted a U.S. military base in eastern Syria on Friday, which would be the first known attack by Iranian forces on Syrian territory since the U.S. and Israel jointly launched a war against Iran earlier this year.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it carried out a “surprise attack” on a U.S. special operations command center at al-Tanf near Syria’s southeastern borders with Iraq and Jordan in response to the killing of Iranian soldiers in the southeastern Iranian city of Iranshahr, according to Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB. ABC News cannot independently verify the claim.

In February, the U.S. military said it had completed a withdrawal from the so-called al-Tanf Garrison, which “was a key base along a southern highway that was a main smuggling route for Iranian weapons flowing into Syria and particularly Hezbollah in Lebanon.”

Former IRGC commander Maj. Gen. Mohsen Rezaei said in an interview with Iranian state media on Friday that if the U.S. continues its military actions against Iran, Tehran will move to an offensive position rather than a retaliatory one.

“If America continues the war in the coming days, Iran will move from the phase of retaliation to the offensive phase, and we declare that the conditions for both negotiations and war are over,” the general said.

The IRGC general further stated Washington had violated all five preliminary clauses of the MoU, and that the “prediction that Donald Trump would tear up the memorandum of understanding came true.”

Fars News Agency also reports the general saying if America continues the war in the next two to three days, Iran will enter the stage of “full-scale assault and annihilation.”

President Donald Trump said during a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday that he isn’t concerned about making a deal soon with Iran, adding that he doesn’t “care about the midterms” in what he said he thinks is the regime’s calculation that he has to negotiate a deal before what are expected to be highly-competitive elections in November.

“They thought they were going to out-wait me, you know. ‘We’ll out-wait him. He’s got the midterms.’ I don’t care about the midterms. Look what happened last night, that was a prelude to the midterms. People understand it,” Trump said, likely referencing his endorsed candidate, Ken Paxton, winning the Senate Republican runoff in Texas.

With tensions escalating with Iran and gas prices still up across the country, Trump said he feels no urgency to end the war.

“Mr. President, you’ve said that you’re in no rush to make a deal, but with gas prices that are still high across the country, people are paying more for travel. Does that give you more urgency to make a deal? Why doesn’t it?” ABC News Senior Political Correspondent Rachel Scott asked Trump during the Cabinet meeting.

“Well, I’ll tell you, the primary urgency, I’ve said this, it wasn’t covered properly, but the primary urgency is that we can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon,” Trump responded.

The president also appeared to issue a new threat against Oman, a key American ally in the Middle East.

Trump said he would not accept a short-term deal that allows Iran and Oman to control the Strait of Hormuz — as reported in Iranian state media, and that the critical shipping lane will be “open to everybody.”

“Oman will behave just like everybody else or we’ll have to blow them up. They understand that,” Trump said.

Trump on Wednesday was asked whether he would consider easing any sanctions on Iran. He said no.

“No, we’re not talking about any easing of sanctions or giving money. No sanctions, no money, no nothing,” Trump said. “We have control of money that they claim is theirs. We’ll keep control of that money. And when they behave properly and when they do what’s right, we’ll let them have their money. But right now, we’re not doing that … One thing is not contingent on the other.”

The comments come after a senior administration official told reporters over the weekend that Iran could be rewarded with a lifting of sanctions and unfreezing of assets in exchange for a deal on its nuclear program.

On the status of negotiations, Trump said on Wednesday he’s “not satisfied” and that Iran is “negotiating on fumes.”

“We’re not satisfied with it, but we will be. We will be. Either that or we’ll have to just finish the job,” Trump said.