Trump accused Iran of trying to stall peace agreement talks by running down time before November’s US midterm elections to secure better terms. He said Iran’s strategy of keeping the Strait of Hormuz closed to pressure the US and global economies would fail. He claimed Iran wants a deal and pointed to Iran’s economic conditions, including very high inflation and a broken economic system, as reasons Iran must compromise. He said current talks have failed because the US is not satisfied, but that it will be satisfied or the US will finish the job. He rejected any short-term arrangement that would let Iran and Oman control the strait, stating it will be open to everyone and that the US would oversee it. He said a deal would reopen the strait, which carries a large share of global energy supplies.
"They thought they were going to out-wait me, you know, We'll out wait him, he's got the midterms, the US president told a meeting of his cabinet at the White House on Wednesday. He insisted the approach supposedly aimed at ratcheting up pressure on the US and global economies by keeping the strategically vital strait of Hormuz closed would fail, and claimed that Iran wants very much to make a deal. I don't care about the midterms, look what happened last night, Trump said, an apparent reference to the triumph of Ken Paxton, who he had endorsed, over the sitting Republican senator John Cornyn in the Republican Senate primary."
"Trump said the Iranian economy was in freefall, suggesting that made it imperative for Iran to compromise. They have 250% inflation, their money has no value, their whole economic system is broken down. His comments, at the 12th cabinet meeting of Trump's second term, came as talks aimed at ending the near-three-month conflict are said to be at a crucial stage. Current attempts to reach a deal had so far failed, he claimed, because we're not satisfied with it. But we will be, the president added. Either that, or we will just have to finish the job."
"Asked if he would agree to a short-term deal that allowed Iran and Oman to be in control of the strait of Hormuz, Trump replied: The strait is going to be open to everybody. Nobody is going to control it. We'll watch over it , but nobody is going to control it. That's part of the negotiation that we have. They would like to control it. It's international waters and Oman will behave just like everybody else, or we will have to blow them up."
"He said one consequence of a putative deal under discussion is that the strait which was a conduit for 20% of the world's energy supplies before the war would open immediately. At one o"
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