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🇺🇲 Trump to FT: no immediate plan to strike Iran, forces "locked and loaded". President Trump told the Financial Times in a phone interview on Tuesday, hours before US midterm polls closed, that Washington has no immediate plan to strike Iran, according to FT. Asked about suggestions from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that an attack could come later this week, Trump said: "I'm ready, we're ready. We're locked and loaded if we need to go, but there may be no reason for it." He added: "We seem to be getting everything we want." His "brilliant situation" remark followed claims that more oil now passes through the Strait of Hormuz than before the war and that the US blockade of Iranian ports is hurting Iran's economy. These are Trump's claims and have not been independently verified. On whether the US is at war, he said: "We're not really in a war, because we hit them with the B2 bombers and wiped out their nuclear potential incapacity." He added: "I don't consider that we're in war like Ukraine, wars like World War I, World War II." The comment came a day after US strikes on Qeshm Island, which Washington described as defensive. Trump said indirect talks continue over Iran's enriched uranium stockpile, which he calls "nuclear dust": "We're having discussions, and we'll see how that all works out." Context: Axios reported on Nov 1 that Netanyahu was pressing for strikes soon after the midterms while Trump preferred to let talks play out.

«Notre modèle affirme que Donald Trump ne va pas prendre une déculottée monumentale comme le prévoient certains sondages», explique Matthieu Hocque, secrétaire général adjoint du think tank Le Millénaire.