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America just said Iran's war is over and kept its navy blockading it

3 days ago · 10 November 2026Share

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters at the White House. — President Donald J. Trump speaks with reporters along the South Lawn driveway of the White House on Friday, Aug. 2, 2019. File photo. The White House from Washington, DC · Public domain

Donald Trump just said the war with Iran is over.

Then in the same breath, he kept the military pressure on.

He said it a few hours ago at the White House, right after meeting Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. Qatar came to push for more time for diplomacy between Washington and Tehran.

Donald Trump told reporters his war with Iran is, in his words, militarily over, and that America is just keeping things as they are.

He said he thinks the war is going to be ending fairly soon. He said another round of strikes doesn't seem necessary.

But he didn't stand anything down.

In the same remarks, Donald Trump said American forces are ready to go at any moment, if anything changes.

So what does that actually mean on the ground?

The US naval blockade on Iran stays. Donald Trump calls it the largest blockade in American history. Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait all asked him to keep it running, and he's keeping it running.

And Operation Iron Gate keeps running too. That's the US Central Command operation that started this weekend to stop weapons and sanctioned goods crossing Iran's land borders and the Caspian Sea.

So the war is "over." The blockade stays. The interception operation stays. The military threat stays.

That's not an end to anything. It's a different way of describing the same pressure.

And it's a shift from where Donald Trump was one day earlier. In a CBS interview that aired two days ago, he said of renewed strikes, says quote "I'm not looking to... I don't think there's any reason to." That's a step back from certainty.

Now he's naming a timeline. Fairly soon. And keeping the threat alive in the same sentence.

Vice President JD Vance has been running indirect talks with Iran for two weeks now. He met Sheikh Mohammed separately during this same visit.

Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, said two days ago a breakthrough isn't close. He said Iran's demands are not realistic.

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Iran isn't speaking with one voice either. But no voice coming out of Tehran is saying yes.

Masoud Pezeshkian, Iran's President, said two days ago that Iran can hold talks with dignity and end the matter with dignity. He said Iran's leadership has told officials to end the country's no-war, no-peace situation.

But Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, posted online telling the US to fold its hand and stop manufacturing fake news about imaginary talks. He's demanding Washington act on Iran's seven conditions first.

And a senior Iranian security official, cited by the state-linked outlet Tasnim, said Iran's position hasn't moved. No talks until America acts on those seven conditions.

Here's the thing. Nobody involved has said what those seven conditions actually require America to do.

There are reports of a possible two-day plan. America eases the naval blockade and releases frozen Iranian funds. Iran formally invites UN nuclear inspectors back to the sites damaged in the war.

But that detail comes from unnamed officials briefed on the talks. A senior Qatari official has already told the broadcaster Al Jazeera that circulating accounts of the proposal's terms are false.

So even the shape of a possible deal is disputed by the people closest to it.

What's clear is the traffic. Ali Falih al-Zaidi, Iraq's Prime Minister, met Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran's chief negotiator, in Tehran five days ago.

Turkey's Ibrahim Kalin said Qatar would host JD Vance and Mohsen Rezaei in Doha next week. An Iranian outlet linked to the Revolutionary Guard then said that was never planned at all.

Every channel is active. Nobody agrees on what any of it means.

Donald Trump has told the world the war is effectively over. He has also told the world American forces are locked and loaded.

Both of those are true at the same time. Only one of them is a promise.

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He always talks shit, It means it's not over and he thinks Iran believes him, because he's clever. And he's tricked them, He's a lot cleverer than they are, thats why he's losing all of his bases,? Ahhh but it's just a flesh wound, He's still able to stand on one leg ? lauriemillerjade.com
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America just said Iran's war is over and kept its navy blockading it

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