{"id":4084,"date":"2026-11-09T19:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4084"},"modified":"2026-11-09T19:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:03:50","slug":"trump-says-iran-war-highly-unlikely-to-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4084","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Iran war ‘highly unlikely’ to resume"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US President Donald Trump cast doubt on renewed fighting with Iran, telling CNN<\/em> it was \u201chighly unlikely,\u201d ahead of a meeting with mediator Qatar\u2019s prime minister on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump has threatened to resume strikes in recent weeks, with US media reports suggesting that hostilities could restart after last Tuesday\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n

The president told CNN<\/em> in an interview on Sunday that renewed fighting was \u201chighly unlikely,\u201d but warned that his decision \u201cdepends on whether or not they sign a very strong agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI would if necessary, but we hit them really hard. I hit them so hard. You don\u2019t know how hard I hit them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Trump is scheduled to meet Qatar\u2019s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, who is also the country\u2019s foreign minister, at the White House on Monday.<\/p>\n

The meeting will be Trump\u2019s first with a foreign leader since a massive midterm loss that saw his Republican Party lose control of Congress.<\/p>\n

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi suggested on Sunday that peace talks had been paused while the political fallout of the vote was being assessed.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the past few days, there has been no more travel (by mediators), and the reason for this is the shock that the election results in the United States have caused to everyone,\u201d Araghchi told state television.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe now have to see how long it will take for them to digest these results, in order to determine how we are going to move forward,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

<\/a>\u2018They had enough\u2019<\/h3>\n

Trump has acknowledged that the highly unpopular war with Iran \u2014 which began with US-Israeli strikes in late February \u2014 was at least partially responsible for the Republicans\u2019 defeat.<\/p>\n

Araghchi said Monday that the US president \u201cclearly recognises that the vast majority of Americans are disgusted with Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAmericans are evidently sick and tired of Israel bamboozling US administrations into Forever Wars,\u201d Araghchi said on X. \u201cThey had enough. So has our region.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Sunday\u2019s CNN<\/em> interview, Trump once again suggested that the economic pressure Iran is under will force its leaders into accepting the United States\u2019 terms.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re a failing nation. It just came out, you saw this year, 301 per cent inflation,\u201d Trump claimed. \u201cThey\u2019re withering away financially. We\u2019ve hit them militarily. We could finish them off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s official figures put inflation at nearly 90 per cent year-on-year in September.<\/p>\n

Iranian state television said the island of Qeshm in the Strait of Hormuz was attacked overnight Sunday, hours after the official IRNA<\/em> news agency reported two explosions there.<\/p>\n

Various regional powers, including Qatar and Pakistan, have been trying for months without success to bring a definitive halt to the war.<\/p>\n

Outright fighting has largely subsided, but Iran continues in its efforts to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, vital to global energy supplies, while the US Navy maintains its own counterblockade of Iranian ports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump cast doubt on renewed fighting with Iran, telling CNN it was \u201chighly unlikely,\u201d ahead of a meeting with mediator Qatar\u2019s prime minister on Monday. Trump has threatened to resume strikes in recent weeks, with US media reports suggesting that hostilities could restart after last Tuesday\u2019s midterm elections. The president told CNN in an interview on Sunday that renewed fighting was \u201chighly unlikely,\u201d but warned that his decision \u201cdepends on whether or not they sign a very strong agreement.\u201d \u201cI would if necessary, but we hit them…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}