Trump says the U.S. doesn’t ‘need’ a deal with Iran

President Donald Trump said Thursday that the U.S. doesn’t need a deal with Iran despite repeatedly stating in the run-up to the midterm elections that one could be reached.

“We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!” he wrote in a Truth Social post, referring to the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump said in the post that he asked Vice President JD Vance to focus not on diplomatic talks with Iran, but on alleged “crime and corruption” in “Democrat run Cities and States.” Days before the election, Vance had reached out to hard-liner Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, in a bid to restart talks, The Wall Street Journal had reported.

Vance, a potential 2028 presidential contender, had said a day after GOP losses in last week’s midterm elections that voter anger over the Iran war was the “real reason” for the party’s rout.

It wasn’t immediately clear what prompted the president’s notable shift, as he had suggested numerous times before the election that the U.S. could reach an agreement to resolve the conflict with Iran in the…

Original source: https://www.nbcnews.com/business