The president is telling advisers he may have to abandon the key rationale for his war on Iran
His administration has repeatedly tried to fold the nuclear question into a wider settlement with Tehran. But The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that Trump now privately concedes, in meetings with senior aides, that those demands are unachievable and is now just focused on getting ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz again.
That reported retreat would make it harder for the White House to paint any end to the conflict as a victory. Iran’s closure of the waterway, through which a fifth of global oil supply passes, has sent gas prices in the U.S. soaring ahead of midterm elections likely to be dominated by cost-of-living concerns. Democrats hold an almost 8-point lead in the polls, which means the GOP could lose control of both the House and the Senate.
The president sounded unhurried about the peace negotiations in an interview with Axios on Sunday. “We are low-keying it,” he told the outlet by phone. He made no threats of further bombing, as he often has during even quieter periods of the conflict, and voiced no anger over Tehran’s resistance to talks over the past several weeks.
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