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President Trump has turned down a proposed pause in fighting with Iran and confided to aides that he anticipates striking the country again once this fall's midterm elections have concluded, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The rejected offer came out of weekend talks in Qatar, where Iranian representatives suggested a seven-day halt to hostilities that would have seen Tehran reopen a critical shipping waterway and resume nuclear discussions, contingent on Washington easing its economic squeeze on the country, including its naval presence blocking Iranian ports. Trump maintains publicly that Iran will ultimately have no choice but to accept a deal once the election passes, but sources say he harbors real doubts Tehran will cooperate and has already signaled to staff that renewed airstrikes feel like the more probable path forward.

Just how extensive any future strikes might be is still uncertain. Sources describe a president torn between wanting to preserve limited weapons stockpiles for other potential flashpoints and a pattern of threatening dramatic military action whenever talks stall, threats he's historically walked back from at the last moment....

President Donald Trump, reportedly humiliated by a war he can't end, has his Pentagon drawing up strike options to use before the midterms.

The White House has directed military planners to prepare attacks on Iranian targets that could be carried out ahead of the November 3 elections, two administration officials told The Atlantic in a report published Wednesday. U.S. Central Command is putting the plans together, though officials said no final decision has been made on how large the strikes would be, what they would hit or whether they'll happen at all.

Trump has been openly angry over how long the conflict has dragged on, now nearing eight months, and people close to him believe he feels "privately humiliated" that he hasn't been able to wrap it up, according to The Atlantic....

President Donald Trump is trying to rewrite his own predictions about how long the war with Iran would last, but CNN's Daniel Dale subjected his revised public claims to a fact check.

Seven months after launching the war on the last day of February, the 80-year-old president claimed Thursday that his much-repeated "four to six weeks" estimate referred only to eliminating Iran's nuclear threat, not to the entire conflict.

"I stated, numerous times, that it would take 4-6 weeks to get rid of THE IRAN NUCLEAR THREAT, and I did it in one night! The rest of the time is just to make sure it stays that way," Trump wrote on Truth Social....

President Donald Trump made the unusual move of announcing that the United States will not attack Iran "at any time prior to the Midterm Elections," which take place Nov. 3.

Trump made the pledge Thursday in a Truth Social post. He said the United States is in talks with Iran.

He added that a U.S. blockade against Iran would stay in force....

U.S. stock futures slid and crude oil prices surged Monday after President Donald Trump rejected an Iranian proposal to end the seven-month war, rattling investors already braced for a longer conflict.

Crude prices jumped roughly 3% to around $108 a barrel, while Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures fell 0.36%, 0.49% and 0.98% respectively in pre-market trading, according to Reuters. Treasury yields climbed as the spike in oil revived inflation fears.

The move followed Trump's weekend rejection of a Qatari-mediated peace offer that Iran unveiled on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. Under the plan, Tehran would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and restart nuclear talks within seven days if Washington lifted its naval blockade, removed oil sanctions and restored a regional ceasefire, Axios reported....

The White House received a renewed offer from Iran for ending the war, a senior Iranian official told Al Jazeera on Saturday, putting the next move on President Donald Trump in a conflict that has sent global oil prices soaring.

Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, told Al Jazeera in an exclusive interview that Tehran had communicated to the Trump administration via Qatari mediators its conditions for ending the war “on all fronts.”

“A response from President Trump is awaited,” Al Jazeera’s report reads....