{"id":254430,"date":"2026-08-18T13:17:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/254430\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T13:17:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:17:23","slug":"trump-stresses-iran-nuclear-issue-as-path-to-end-war-unclear-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/254430\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump stresses Iran nuclear issue as path to end war unclear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump continues to stress &#8216;Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon&#8217; despite unclear path to end war<\/p>\n<p>So far, there is no timetable to stop the Iran war as the 60-day goal to reach an agreement to end the conflict expired on Monday. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/news-team\/5a9f3277-8181-47b8-b1c9-45e2ad91e4d6\" aria-label=\"Rachel Hirschheimer profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5a9f3277-8181-47b8-b1c9-45e2ad91e4d6_1767125011.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Rachel Hirschheimer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0bc43521-df8b-4f1e-b1fc-a9b2c0526d55_1718387873.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Ben Miller\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>WASHINGTON \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">As the 60-day deadline to reach a permanent end to the war in Iran expired Monday, President Donald Trump said the deadline was irrelevant and there is no timetable to stop the conflict. There&#8217;s also no sign the agreement will be extended.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">This comes as negotiations remain stalled and the war nears its sixth month.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbaltv.com\/article\/president-trump-iran-war-deal-question\/73455170\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hearst Television Washington Correspondent Jackie DeFusco asked President Trump<\/a> in the Oval Office on Monday if he is any closer to reaching a final deal to end Iran&#8217;s nuclear program than he was 60 days ago. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The president responded, &#8220;Well, they want to make a deal, but they&#8217;re not gonna make the kind of deal I feel is necessary. Look, we&#8217;re in there for one reason, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The president has also threatened longtime U.S. ally Oman after Iran announced it had reached an agreement with Oman over a plan for ships to travel through the Strait of Hormuz. Trump told Fox News the U.S. would bomb Oman if it interferes.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wjcl.com\/article\/trump-signs-memorandum-understanding-with-iran-whats-next\/71623882\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The memorandum of understanding signed between the U.S. and Iran<\/a> that set a 60-day goal to reach a permanent plan to end the war expired Monday, with no word on extending the agreement.   <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/meet-mike-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">House Speaker Mike Johnson recently said<\/a> that once the war is over, gas and grocery prices will start coming down, a point likely to be emphasized as the midterm elections approach.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">Today,<a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> AAA<\/a> is reporting the average price for a gallon of gas is about $4.07. That&#8217;s about a 37% increase compared to when the war started on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"9\">Keep watching for the latest from the Washington News Bureau:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump continues to stress &#8216;Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon&#8217; despite unclear path to end war So far,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[70282,8646,15477,50397,105,897,376,23399,70283,34,196,70284,5592,49,47901,1857,681,5557,181,56743,10064,864,722,1219,101,392,683,36,735,1705,1537],"class_list":["post-254430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-60-day-deadline","tag-agreement","tag-deadline","tag-final-deal","tag-fox-news","tag-gas","tag-gas-prices","tag-grocery-prices","tag-house-speaker","tag-iran","tag-iran-war","tag-jackie-defusco","tag-ldnd","tag-middle-east","tag-midterm-election","tag-mike-johnson","tag-monday","tag-nuclear-weapon","tag-oman","tag-path","tag-plan","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-president-trump","tag-strait","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-trump","tag-u-s","tag-war","tag-war-with-iran","tag-washington","tag-white-house"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117116708356314297","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}