US President Donald Trump raised doubts on Monday about whether he would follow through on a threatened resumption of military strikes against Iran and said a deal with Tehran could happen.<\/p>\n
Trump in recent weeks had hinted about renewing attacks on Iran after the US midterm elections on Tuesday. But after a speech at the Washington Reflecting Pool on Monday, he indicated he might be thinking otherwise.<\/p>\n
Asked by reporters if he was considering striking Iran after the midterms, Trump replied “no.”<\/p>\n
The Iran war is a leading cause of high gasoline prices that are weighing on voters, and Trump is under pressure to end the conflict.<\/p>\n
Iranian negotiators were in Doha on Sunday for a third consecutive day of talks with Qatari mediators aimed at \u200bpushing for a deal to end the war. Trump said on Monday he believed Iran wanted to make a deal and that such an agreement “could happen.”<\/p>\n
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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. Israel has a 28-month window before Trump leaves office to entrench the processes now underway in Iran, Gaza, and Lebanon, according to assessments heard at the MEAD conference in Washington. (credit: Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
US Vice President JD Vance reported that there had been “a number of good conversations with the Iranians.”<\/p>\n
“Look, the president and I both feel pretty good about the prospects for potentially coming to a negotiated settlement. We’re going to keep on working at it,” he said.<\/p>\n
Trump stressed his bottom-line demand that Iran not possess a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n
“We’re not going to allow Iran ever to have a nuclear weapon, and they understand that. They’ve understood that, and they’ve said it even recently,” Trump said.<\/p>\n
“If we allowed Iran to have a nuclear weapon, this country could never function in the same way. The whole world would be a different place,” he said.<\/p>\n
He insisted that the operation was not actually a war because “we’ve done very little fighting” recently after sweeping strikes months ago in which some Iranian leaders were killed.<\/p>\n
“We wiped out their leaders, first level of leaders, the second level of leaders, and they’ve asked us, please stop doing that, and we will.”<\/p>\n
Trump talked about Iran in a speech that was billed as his closing argument for voters ahead of US midterm elections on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Trump, Netanyahu discuss possible resumption of strikes<\/p>\n
Trump spoke by phone with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> on Saturday as Washington prepared for a possible resumption of military strikes against Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported.<\/p>\n The call came days after Trump consulted senior US military commanders at the White House about options for restarting major combat operations, according to the WSJ.<\/p>\n