Trump Says Iran War Will End Soon as Economic Anxiety Shapes Midterms
Donald Trump said the war with Iran would end “very soon” and whenever he wanted it to, while insisting that Iran would never acquire a nuclear weapon and predicting oil prices would fall sharply. His remarks come as rising fuel and household costs shape the US midterm elections amid wider concern about global conflict.
Trump has recently sought to blame Ukraine’s attacks on Russian refineries for higher fuel prices, but his renewed emphasis on Iran suggests economic pressures are becoming politically harder to ignore. An exclusive Guardian-Harris poll found that three in four Americans are worried about a possible recession, with voter groups crucial to the midterms increasingly dissatisfied with the economy.
Foreign-policy tensions are also complicating the campaign. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said he felt betrayed after his military’s access to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite service was restricted. Trump denied that Washington had curtailed intelligence sharing, although Musk suggested the US government was responsible. In Texas, Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico told undecided voters at a town hall that he wanted to put residents ahead of party loyalty, while facing questions about Gaza and his faith. Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, is meanwhile under scrutiny over whether she has ever passed the bar despite describing herself as a lawyer.
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