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Trump says Iran has a 'dream' for war to continue after US midterm elections

Middle East Eye21 October 2026, 03:18 UTCIran

Trump says Iran has a 'dream' for war to continue after US midterm elections US President Donald Trump claimed that Iran has a "dream" for the war to remain ongoing beyond the November midterm elections. "Well, it’ll end very fast. As soon as the war ends – and it will end one way or the other very quickly – oil is going to drop like a rock," Trump said during a campaign rally in North Carolina He added that the rise of energy prices were a "very small price to pay for keeping a nuclear weapon away from the world’s number one state sponsor of ter

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