President Donald Trump will meet with his Cabinet as negotiations with Iran aimed at ending the war remain unsettled. Trump projects confidence that a deal will reopen the Strait of Hormuz and allow him to claim Iran’s nuclear capability has been sufficiently diminished. The emerging arrangement delays key issues for later resolution and has drawn criticism, including from some supporters, that Iran’s hard-line leaders may emerge stronger despite losses. The timing coincides with midterm elections and rising costs and fuel prices that could affect voter sentiment. Talks were complicated by U.S. defensive strikes on missile launch sites and mine-laying boats in southern Iran, which Iran condemned as bad faith while the U.S. said it acted with restraint. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said talks will take several more days and could use the ceasefire period to refine a nuclear agreement.
"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 Republican president to fierce criticism - even from some of his own supporters - that Iran's hard-line 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."
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