Trump says the U.S. doesn’t ‘need’ a deal with Iran

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President Donald Trump said that the U.S. doesn’t need a deal with Iran despite repeatedly stating in the run-up to the midterm elections that one could be reached.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that the U.S. doesn’t need a deal with Iran despite repeatedly stating in the run-up to the midterm elections that one could be reached.

“We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!” he wrote in a Truth Social post, referring to the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump said in the post that he asked Vice President JD Vance to focus not on diplomatic talks with Iran, but on alleged “crime and corruption” in “Democrat run Cities and States.” Days before the election, Vance had reached out to hard-liner Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, in a bid to restart talks, The Wall Street Journal had reported.

Vance, a potential 2028 presidential contender, had said a day after GOP losses in last week’s midterm elections that voter anger over the Iran war was the “real reason” for the party’s rout.

It wasn’t immediately clear what prompted the president’s notable shift, as he had suggested numerous times before the election that the U.S. could reach an agreement to resolve the conflict with Iran in the near future.

On the eve of the election, Trump wrote on Truth Social: “Oil Prices are DROPPING LIKE A ROCK, down almost $10 a Barrel, A RECORD, because people feel that there will not be a War with Iran. Iran wants a settlement, as soon as possible. It could happen!”

Trump’s post comes two days after he predicted at an impromptu White House news conference that the war is “going to be ending fairly soon.”

He had met with the Qatari prime minister in the Oval Office Monday and wrote in a Truth Social post afterward that “Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, and others, would prefer the status quo, in other words, a continuation of the Greatest Naval Blockade in History.”

He added: “Should there be any change with respect to developments in the Middle East, the United States of America is ‘locked and loaded’ and…

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