Donald Trump said the US could end its war in Iran within “two or three weeks” even if no peace deal was reached, in the strongest sign yet of the president’s growing impatience with a conflict that has roiled markets.
“We’ll leave whether we have a deal or not. It’s irrelevant,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office late on Tuesday. The US would do so within “two or three weeks” though a deal between Washington and Tehran was possible before then, he said.
The president’s remarks at a White House event came just hours after Brent, the international oil benchmark, settled at $118.35 a barrel, near its highest level since the start of the war a month ago.