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Trump Rules Out Iran Attack Before Midterms, Cites Talks

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Trump Rules Out Iran Attack Before Midterms, Cites Talks

An Iran attack before midterms is off the table, President Donald Trump said on Thursday, describing US discussions with Tehran as productive. His Truth Social post came a day after Axios reported that the Pentagon had been told to prepare for a possible return to major combat operations. No ceasefire or deal has been announced, and nothing independent yet confirms what the talks involve. What Trump Said About an Iran Attack Before Midterms Trump said in his Truth Social post that the United States would not launch an attack on Iran before the November 3 congressional elections. He gave no further details about who is taking part in the talks, where they are being held or what has been discussed. The pledge is also narrow. It covers only the weeks before the vote and says nothing abo...

Trump Rejects Iran’s Latest Offer to Reopen the Strait of Hormuz

The Iran Hormuz plan that President Donald Trump rejected on Saturday would have reopened the strait within seven days and paused the fighting between the two countries. Iranian officials had submitted it through Qatari mediators, and Trump called it "not acceptable" when reporters asked him about it at the White House before he left for a college football game in Tennessee. "I reject their proposal," he told them. Trump did not detail every term he objected to, but he said Tehran wanted the deal because it was "losing so badly." Why the Iran Hormuz Plan Matters Right Now The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow waterway between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula that normally carries roughly a fifth of the world's oil and a large share of the world's liquefied natural gas. Iran effectively clos...

Trump Calls US-Iran Meeting at the UN ‘Very Good’ After Warning He Could ‘Annihilate’ the Islamic Republic

The Iran talks at the UN wrapped after three hours on Tuesday, Donald Trump told reporters, a strikingly calm coda to a speech in which he'd spent the morning threatening to erase the country entirely. Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York, the American president framed the nearly seven-month war with Iran as a binary choice. Iran could accept a deal and rebuild into, in his words, one of the greatest countries in the Middle East, or he could "annihilate the Islamic Republic" and give it no chance of recovery. He lingered on the second option rhetorically, then turned hours later to describe the day's actual diplomacy in far cooler terms. What the Iran Talks at the UN Actually Produced The substance behind the podium theatrics was a closed-door meeting between US and Iran...