{"id":324465,"date":"2026-11-09T22:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T22:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/324465\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T22:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T22:56:11","slug":"trump-after-meeting-with-qatari-pm-says-he-believes-war-with-iran-is-militarily-effectively-over-ap-top-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/324465\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump after meeting with Qatari PM says he believes war with Iran is militarily ‘effectively over’ | Ap-top-news"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump on Monday told reporters he believes the war in Iran<\/a> \u201cmilitarily is effectively over.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president made a surprise visit to the White House briefing room after meeting with Qatar\u2019s prime minister earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran militarily is effectively over,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe\u2019re just keeping it the status quo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump added that Iran has been \u201cdecapitated\u201d but said he is still looking to make sure there\u2019s a long-term solution to ensuring that Iran\u2019s nuclear program is defanged.<\/p>\n

The president offered some of his most definitive comments about moving away from his threat to resume strikes on Iran after the U.S. midterm elections passed.<\/p>\n

The president’s Republican Party lost both chambers of Congress to Democrats in last week’s elections. The election was shadowed by dissatisfaction among the American electorate over the 8-month-old war, which has led to a surge in fuel prices that’s impacted nearly ever sector of the global economy.<\/p>\n

Trump at his news conference added that there was \u201cpositive momentum\u201d toward ending the war without going into detail.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe military action doesn\u2019t seem to be a very necessary thing, but we\u2019re locked and loaded, ready to go for any reason that changes,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

Trump told CNN in a phone interview Sunday that as long as the U.S. sees progress in negotiations with the Iranians and they sign a \u201cstrong agreement,\u201d it\u2019s \u201chighly unlikely it\u2019s going to be necessary\u201d to resume strikes.<\/p>\n

Trump said, however, that the U.S. had identified infrastructure targets, including 38 bridges, that it would strike if military action resumes.<\/p>\n

The U.S. military, meanwhile, still has carried out limited strikes on Iran<\/a>, including against its air defenses, at least twice over the past week. It also fired on and disabled a commercial ship<\/a> Saturday that the U.S. says was trying to breach its naval blockade on Iranian ports.<\/p>\n

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