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Home / US-Israel-Iran / Trump says the Iran war is nearly finished…but peace talks and economic risks loom
US‑Israel‑Iran, Iran, Middle East

April 15, 2026

Trump says the Iran war is nearly finished…but peace talks and economic risks loom

The Hill speaks with Rosemary Kelanic, Director of the Middle East Program at Defense Priorities, about the war with Iran, as President Trump doubles down on the fact that he thought oil prices would be “much worse” than they are now amid the conflict “I mean, honestly, I thought there’d be much worse. And I was willing to do that to stop a nuclear weapon to be used against this country or the Middle East. Anybody in the Middle East, they were going to take out the Middle East to stop that,” Trump said during his interview that aired Wednesday on Fox Business’s “Mornings with Maria.”

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