Iran War Updates: Trump says war “going to end soon” as Qatar pushes for a U.S.-Iran deal

Updated on: October 30, 2026 / 9:00 AM EDT / CBS News

President ⁠Donald Trump said Friday that the war with Iran is "going to get wrapped up soon."

Speaking to Kansas ‌City radio station KCMO ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections, the president said "it's going to get wrapped ⁠up soon," without specifying how.

"We need a guarantee there'll never be a nuclear weapon," he added.

The commander of the U.S. military's Central Command, Adm. Brad Cooper, reiterated his longstanding assertions on Friday that Iran's navy is "at the bottom of the sea" and that southern commercial shipping lanes through the Strait of Hormuz are clear of Iranian mines and safe to navigate.

In a video posted on social media, Cooper said the U.S. had helped Gulf partners export more than 1.5 billion barrels of crude oil since the summer, while the U.S. naval blockade had prevented Iran from exporting any oil through the strait.

Cooper said he had recently flown over the strait and seen U.S. military "assets in the air and on the water."

"What I didn't see," said Cooper, was Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps "out there at all. They patrolled the Strait of Hormuz…

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