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President Donald Trump said Thursday that the U.S. doesn\u2019t need a deal with Iran despite repeatedly stating in the run-up to the midterm elections that one could be reached.
\u201cWe don\u2019t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed. We\u2019ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we\u2019ve got their Strait!\u201d he wrote in a Truth Social post<\/a>, 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 \u201ccrime and corruption\u201d in \u201cDemocrat run Cities and States.\u201d Days before the election, Vance had reached out to hard-liner Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of Iran\u2019s Supreme National Security Council, in a bid to restart talks, The Wall Street Journal had reported<\/a>.
Vance, a potential 2028 presidential contender, had said a day after GOP losses in last week\u2019s midterm elections that voter anger over the Iran war was the \u201creal reason\u201d for the party\u2019s rout<\/a>.
It wasn\u2019t immediately clear what prompted the president\u2019s 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<\/a>: \u201cOil 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!\u201d
Trump\u2019s post comes two days after he predicted at an impromptu White House news conference that the war is \u201cgoing to be ending fairly soon.\u201d
He had met with the Qatari prime minister in the Oval Office<\/a> Monday and wrote in a Truth Social post<\/a> afterward that \u201cQatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, and others, would prefer the status quo, in other words, a continuation of the Greatest Naval Blockade in History.\u201d
He added: \u201cShould there be any change with respect to developments in the Middle East, the United States of America is \u2018locked and loaded\u2019 and ready to go. At this point, however, that seems to be quite unlikely. Israel, and the entire Middle East, are protected from Iranian danger and threats. We are seeing positive momentum toward an end to this Conflict, and will ensure that America\u2019s interests are at all times protected.\u201d
Hours later, Trump made a rare call into C-SPAN, and when asked how much longer the war with Iran could last, he said, \u201cWe could knock it out fast, or we could knock it out over a short, not a long period of time.\u201d
The president had said at the United Nations General Assembly in September that Iran was likely waiting<\/a> to see the outcome of the midterm elections to make a deal.
\u201cI believe we\u2019ll make a deal right after the election because it doesn\u2019t make sense for them not to,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThey\u2019re waiting to see how I do in the midterm election.\u201d
NBC News reported last week that some of Trump\u2019s advisers have told him that the window for restarting major combat operations in Iran <\/a>was closing and that he should act before Democrats retake control of Congress in January, according to two U.S. officials. That timeline would require him to make a decision on Iran within weeks.
Rebecca Shabad is a politics reporter for NBC News based in Washington.
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