Trump will meet with his Cabinet as negotiations with Iran remain in flux after claims of largely negotiated progress. The administration seeks a deal that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and provide a basis to claim Iran’s nuclear capability has been sufficiently diminished. Many critical issues are deferred for later resolution, raising concerns that Iran’s hardline leaders could emerge battered but emboldened. The timing coincides with midterm elections and rising costs and fuel prices that worry Republicans. Talks were complicated by U.S. defensive strikes on missile launch sites and mine-laying boats in southern Iran. The U.S. said it acted with restraint during a ceasefire, while Iran condemned the strikes as bad faith. Rubio said talks on reopening the strait and extending the ceasefire will take several more days.
"President Donald Trump will meet with his Cabinet on Wednesday at a precarious moment for talks aimed at ending the war with Iran, just days after insisting that his administration and Tehran had "largely negotiated" a settlement but with the negotiations still in a state of flux. As he prepares to huddle with his top aides, Trump is projecting confidence that he's closing in on a deal that will reopen the Strait of Hormuz and provide him a credible argument that Iran's nuclear capability has been diminished enough to declare victory, winding down a conflict that's been politically unpopular for Republicans."
"But as things stand, Trump also risks finding closure to his war of choice comes with an unsatisfactory ending. The emerging deal puts off many critical issues to be resolved later and has already exposed the president to fierce criticism even from some of his own supporters that Iran's hardline leaders will emerge from the conflict battered but emboldened. It all comes to a head just as the midterm elections to determine control of Congress come into focus and as Republicans worry that rising costs and fuel prices are darkening the American electorate's mood."
"Talks were further complicated after U.S. forces carried out what the Pentagon called "defensive" strikes on missile launch sites and mine-laying boats in southern Iran on Monday. The U.S. said it acted with "restraint" in light of the weekslong ceasefire, while Iran decried the action as a sign of "bad faith and unreliability." Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that talks with Iran on reopening the strait and extending the ceasefire a period that the administration says could be used to hash out the finer details of a nuclear agreement will take several more days."
""He's either going to make a good deal or no deal," Rubio told reporters. Trump for his part took to social media on Tuesday to grumble that even if Tehran were to offer"
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