Trump says US will win Iran war 'very soon' and predicts falling gas prices
The claim comes as multiple accounts of US-Iran talks conflict over how close, or far, a deal actually is.
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President Trump said inflation will be eradicated once the war with Iran ends, adding to his earlier prediction that gas prices will fall. He did not say how the war's end would affect inflation or give a timeline.
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Trump said today that US officials spoke with mediators handling the Iran talks, and claimed the US had already prevented Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. He gave no detail on the contacts. Accounts of the mediated talks now carry named sources. CNN attributed to a US official a description of the talks as positive and constructive. Al Arabiya cited a source involved in the negotiations who called a deal unlikely, citing major gaps. Al Hadath, citing sources, reported that Iran had agreed to halt uranium enrichment in exchange for sanctions relief, an account that does not match the others.
President Trump said the United States will win a war with Iran "very soon" and that gas prices will come "tumbling" as a result. He gave no timeline for either claim.
Accounts of the diplomatic track differ sharply. A source involved in the negotiations said the odds of a deal are extremely slim, with major gaps still unresolved. A separate account, attributed to a US official, described a softer position, with Trump willing to ease sanctions on Iran in exchange for progress on its nuclear programme. Officials in Tehran have said a deal with Washington before the US midterm elections is unlikely. Adding to the confusion, one report said Iran had agreed to halt uranium enrichment in exchange for sanctions relief, a claim that conflicts with other accounts describing talks as stalled.
Iran's military chief, Abdollahi, has warned of a "devastating response" to any threat against the country. Washington, for its part, wants Tehran to follow through on a commitment made in Switzerland to allow International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors back into the country.
Trump's talk of an imminent US win, paired with a prediction of falling gas prices, signals confidence in military escalation rather than in the negotiated de-escalation and sanctions relief track described elsewhere. That combination raises the odds of direct conflict rather than a deal, a outcome that would work against hopes for de-escalation and would tend to support the risk premium built into crude prices, even as Trump's own claim about gas prices tumbling points in the opposite direction on price.