Trump says Iran war will end very soon
Tehran's own Tuesday deadline for a US reply on reopening the Strait of Hormuz has passed without an answer
Published · Updated
Map: The Gulf and Hormuz, marking Strait of Hormuz
UpdateTuesday, September 29, 2026 at 10:50 AM ET
Trump's remark is now reported as being about the nuclear issue specifically, not the war as a whole.
Trump added that Iran is "failing very badly" and predicted the nuclear issue, not the war itself, will be resolved very soon. He also said oil prices will fall and told Americans not to fear what technology will do to the country.
President Trump said Tuesday that the war with Iran will be over very soon. He has used that phrase repeatedly since mid-September without any verified concession from either side.
The comment comes as Tehran's own deadline for a US response on reopening the Strait of Hormuz passed unmet. Iran says it is still waiting for Washington to answer a seven-point plan sent through Qatar, and Foreign Minister Araghchi had said Iran expected an answer by Tuesday on both the strait and on nuclear talks.
Other signals from Tehran and Washington point away from an imminent end. Vice President Vance said Iran's supreme leader is alive and that Iran must behave before any deal is possible. Iran's Army spokesperson has offered a 10 billion toman bounty for an American soldier, dead or alive. The head of the Revolutionary Guard's public arm has said the US must admit defeat and leave the region, and parliament speaker Qalibaf has said the region will not sell oil if Iran cannot sell its own. Iran's oil exports have plunged under a US naval blockade, while Saudi Arabia and Iraq have seen their own exports rebound.
Trump made the “very soon” remark hours after denying that any sanctions relief had been offered to Iran, and Iran's delegation has separately denied any plans to negotiate. Taken together, the statement reads as confrontational rather than diplomatic, in line with his linking of a US win and lower gas prices to military resolution rather than a mediated deal. Markets have been burned by this same phrasing before with no follow-through, and traders are likely to treat it as rhetoric that keeps a risk premium in crude rather than as a genuine bullish signal.