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Trump says he will not attack Iran after midterms
Sean Mathews11/2/2026
The US is not going to attack Iran after the midterms, President Donald Trump said on Monday, one day ahead of a hotly anticipated election and following a warning from conservative podcast host Tucker Carlson that Trump was weighing dropping a nuclear bomb. Trump ruled out strikes in a question posed by an NBC reporter during a speech at the Washington Reflecting Pool on Monday, after signalling in other interviews he was in no rush to resume attacking the Islamic Republic.
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