Trump Weighs Declaring Iran War over as Pentagon Extends Middle East Deployments
The White House is weighing a declaration as 50,000 U.S. troops remain deployed and sanctions target Iran’s energy, technology and shipping sectors.
- President Donald Trump is privately considering declaring the U.S. war with Iran over, even as the conflict enters its seventh month and disruptions persist through the Strait of Hormuz, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
- Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth is extending troop deployments into 2027, maintaining about 50,000 U.S. troops and 19 warships across the region, directly contradicting Trump's push to wind down hostilities.
- Renewed US-Iran strikes triggered fresh violence, including an incident in Kuhestak that Iranian officials said hit a wedding gathering. Oil prices climbed to fresh six-week highs Thursday on supply disruption fears.
- The Treasury Department launched Operation Economic Outcast to cut off 'every economic lifeline' sustaining Tehran. One White House official told Reuters, 'We are keeping the pressure on Iran,' denying electoral concerns.
- With midterm elections looming, Reuters reported that senior aides fear a wider conflict could damage Republican chances. Trump privately maintained that electoral consequences are not driving his decisions.
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Trump considers declaring war with Iran over, but Pentagon extends troop deployment in Middle East.
The Sneaky Way Donald Trump Could Get Out of the Iran War
The Wall Street Journal reports Trump has been discussing with aides whether to declare the Iran war over and begin bringing American forces home, arguing economic isolation can keep Iran's nuclear program down, while Hegseth extends some deployments and fifty thousand troops and nineteen warships stay to enforce the blockade. Iran's army, meanwhile, called its overnight strikes on Kuwait and the UAE the thirty-first phase of Operation Saeqeh.
Trump Weighs Declaring Iran War Over
President Donald Trump is privately weighing whether to declare the war with Iran over, believing U.S. military dominance and economic pressure have put Washington in a winning position, even as the Pentagon extends deployments into 2027 and maintains roughly 50,000 troops in the region amid continued fighting and disruption in the Strait of Hormuz.
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