Donald Trump says war will end "right after the mid-terms"

During a Saturday press appearance in Dublin, President Donald Trump said he anticipated the U.S.-Iran conflict would conclude following November's U.S. congressional elections and that energy costs would drop once hostilities cease. He also said Tehran was trying to drag out the war to affect the U.S. elections. The report says the conflict began Feb. 28, after airstrikes by the United States and Israel killed Iran's former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei; it has disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, and Brent crude surpassed $100 this week. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, at the BRICS summit in New Delhi, said his country is not seeking war and wants the fighting to stop, and argued that regional states should handle their own security. Markets are tracking effects on fuel supply, maritime trade and inflation.