WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump said on Monday that Iran would not make the \u200bdeal he thinks is needed to end a war with the U.S. and should surrender as talks between the countries remained stalled.<\/p>\n
“They’re not going to make the kind of \u200ca deal that I feel is necessary. Look, we’re in there for one reason: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon,” he told \u2060reporters in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n
Asked whether the U.S. \u200bwas seeking to extend an interim deal with \u2060Iran, Trump said “no.”<\/p>\n
The interim deal agreed to in June declared an “immediate and permanent termination of military \u200coperations on all fronts,” \u200cbut quickly unraveled, with Trump saying it was “over” on July 7 and Iran’s foreign \u2060ministry declaring it “suspended” a week later.<\/p>\n
Under that memorandum of understanding, \u2060Iran and the U.S. committed to negotiating a final deal \u2014 covering broader issues such as the fate of Iran’s nuclear program \u2014 in a maximum of 60 days, extendable by mutual consent. Monday marks 60 days since the MOU was signed.<\/p>\n
Hours before, Trump told a Fox News reporter during a phone interview that Iran “should put up the white flag of surrender.”<\/p>\n
Separately, Oman and \u200cIran have been in talks to try to reach an agreement \u200bto restore commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, which carried 20% of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas supplies before the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran began in late February.<\/p>\n
“If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb … them,” Trump told Fox.<\/p>\n
When asked later in the Oval Office if he was out of patience with Oman, Trump told reporters: “No, I don’t think they behaved very well, but we’d handle them very easily, just like \u200bwe do other things.”<\/p>\n
The dispute over control of the Strait of Hormuz has driven up fuel prices and put pressure \u200con Trump to \u200cend a war \u2060that is unpopular at home ahead of the November midterm elections that will decide control of the U.S. Congress.<\/p>\n
Trump told Fox News that the midterms were not impacting his strategy on Iran.<\/p>\n
“Midterms have nothing to do with my thinking,” he said.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Monday, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform: “The number \u200cone Goal is, and always \u200bwill be, that Iran cannot have, in any way, shape, \u200cor form, a Nuclear Weapon,” \u2060repeating one of \u200bhis stated rationales for the war.<\/p>\n
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