RESOLVING THE LEDGER
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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."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.Asked whether the U.S. \u200bwas seeking to extend an interim deal with \u2060Iran, Trump said "no."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.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.Hours before, Trump told a Fox News reporter during a phone interview that Iran "should put up the white flag of surrender."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."If Oman gets in the way, we'll bomb ... them," Trump told Fox.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."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.Trump told Fox News that the midterms were not impacting his strategy on Iran."Midterms have nothing to do with my thinking," he said.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.
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