Trump says US no longer needs Iran deal

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President Donald Trump said on Thursday the US no longer needed a deal with Iran, claiming that “those days have long since passed”.In a post on Truth Social, Mr Trump said Vice…

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the US no longer needed a deal with Iran, claiming that “those days have long since passed”.

In a post on Truth Social, Mr Trump said Vice President JD Vance would instead turn his attention to what he described as corruption and crime in Democratic-led states.

“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.

The President's comments marked a shift from recent weeks, when he had repeatedly said the war would end after the midterm elections and that a deal with Iran remained possible.

The results of the November 3 vote dealt a bruising defeat to Mr Trump's Republican Party, which lost its majority in Congress to Democrats.

Oil prices rose around the time of Mr Trump's comments, erasing an earlier decline after Saudi Arabia increased its output to near pre-war levels.

Mr Trump had previously said the price of fuel would go down after the conflict with Iran ends.

On Tuesday, he said a resumption of military action against Iran was “quite unlikely” for now, while warning that Washington remained “locked and loaded” should developments in the Middle East change.

On Thursday, Mr Trump said Mr Vance, who had been involved in outreach to Iran, would instead devote his “complete and total attention” to what he described as large-scale corruption in states including Minnesota, California and Illinois.

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