Iran battle ‘highly unlikely’ to renew, says Trump

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By Linda Ikeji
9 November 2026, 8:04 am

U.S. President Donald Trump has dismissed the probability of renewed army battle with Iran, describing additional hostilities as “highly unlikely” forward of a scheduled White House assembly with Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani.

Speaking to CNN on Sunday, Trump addressed hypothesis fueled by current administration threats and media experiences—that strikes may resume following final week’s midterm elections. While asserting that any future motion relies on whether or not Tehran indicators a complete settlement, the president maintained that earlier army operations severely degraded Iran’s capabilities.

“I would if necessary, but we hit them really hard. I hit them so hard. You don’t know how hard I hit them,” Trump stated.

The diplomatic engagement comes as worldwide mediation pauses to evaluate the political fallout from the U.S. midterms, which resulted in main Republican losses and shifted management of Congress. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi famous on state tv that diplomatic journey by regional mediators has briefly halted whereas the worldwide group processes the election outcomes.

“For the past few days, there has been no more travel, and the reason for this is the shock that the election results in the United States have caused to everyone. We now have to see how long it will take for them to digest these results, in order to determine how we are going to move forward,” Araghchi said.

Araghchi additionally claimed that the electoral end result displays rising home exhaustion within the U.S. concerning protracted conflicts within the Middle East, writing on social media that American residents are “sick and tired of Israel bamboozling U.S. administrations into Forever Wars.”

Trump has acknowledged that public dissatisfaction surrounding the battle which escalated following U.S.-Israeli strikes in late February contributed considerably to his celebration’s congressional defeats. However, the U.S. president insisted that intense financial strain and inflation will finally drive Iran to capitulate to Washington’s phrases, at the same time as Iranian state media reported in a single day explosions and an assault on Qeshm Island within the Strait of Hormuz.