{"id":56066,"date":"2026-04-01T09:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=56066"},"modified":"2026-04-01T11:47:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:47:33","slug":"trump-says-us-may-exit-iran-war-soon-as-new-attacks-hit-gulf-states-and-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=56066","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US may exit Iran war soon as new attacks hit Gulf states and Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Reuters)     <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON\/JERUSALEM\/CAIRO, April 1 &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the end of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/iran\/\">war on Iran<\/a>\u00a0could be near, signalling potential for both direct talks with Tehran&#8217;s leadership \u200cand a winding down of the conflict even without a deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The remarks underscored Washington&#8217;s shifting and at times contradictory statements about when and how a war that has killed thousands, spread across the region and caused unprecedented energy disruption might end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We&#8217;ll be leaving very soon,&#8221; Trump told reporters on Tuesday, saying that could be &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/trump-says-us-could-end-war-in-iran-two-three-weeks-2026-03-31\/\">within two weeks<\/a>, maybe two weeks, maybe three.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Iran doesn&#8217;t have to make a deal, no,&#8221; he said, when asked if successful diplomacy was a prerequisite for the U.S. to end what it calls &#8220;Operation Epic Fury&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) WASHINGTON\/JERUSALEM\/CAIRO, April 1 &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the end of the\u00a0war on Iran\u00a0could be near, signalling potential for both direct talks with Tehran&#8217;s leadership \u200cand a winding down of the conflict even without a deal. The remarks underscored Washington&#8217;s shifting and at times contradictory statements about when and how a war that has killed thousands, spread across the region and caused unprecedented energy disruption might end. &#8220;We&#8217;ll be leaving very soon,&#8221; Trump told reporters on Tuesday, saying that could be &#8220;within two weeks, maybe two weeks, maybe three.&#8221; &#8220;Iran doesn&#8217;t&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56068,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56066\/revisions\/56068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}