"War with Iran Will End Right After Midterms"... Reality Is the Complete Opposite

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U.S. President Donald Trump has stated that the war with Iran will end right after the midterm elections this coming November. However, the U.S. and Iran continue to exchange airstrikes, pushing the situation in the exact opposite direction. Attention is now focused on what stance he will take at the Republican National Convention, which is set to open shortly.

Correspondent Jeon Byung-nam reports from Dallas.

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U.S. President Donald Trump expressed confidence in an early end to the war, asserting that Iran no longer has the capacity to hold out.

He emphasized that while Iran is desperate to influence the U.S. midterm elections to defeat the Republican Party, the war will end immediately after the elections conclude.

[Trump / U.S. President: I think the war will end right after the midterm elections because Iran can no longer hold out.]

Regarding the soaring oil prices that have surpassed 100 dollars per gallon, he claimed it is an unavoidable process to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, adding that oil prices will plunge right after the elections, bringing gasoline prices down to below 2 dollars per gallon.

However, the situation in the Middle East is heading in the exact opposite direction.

In Iraqi territorial waters, a large oil tanker carrying 2 million barrels of crude oil was engulfed in flames after being hit by a drone attack, and merchant vessels were repeatedly targeted across the Persian Gulf.

Iran announced that it attacked 10 vessels around the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for the U.S. military sinking an oil tanker.

This marks the largest-scale vessel strike since the outbreak of the war.

Going a step further, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps declared that it will expand its control zone beyond the Strait of Hormuz to parts of the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea.

At the same time, it demanded an end to the war and the unfreezing of 24 billion dollars in Iranian assets as conditions for ending the state of tension.

Amidst these developments, the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency passed a resolution referring Iran to the United Nations Security Council for the first time in 20 years, citing violations of its obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

President Trump is scheduled to attend the Republican National Convention in Dallas shortly.

Attention is focused on what additional positions he will present regarding the Middle East crisis and economic stability regarding oil.

(Camera Reporter: Oh Jung-shik, Park Eun-ha | Video Editor: Lee Sang-min)
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