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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Michael Howie and Nicholas Cecil

Trump talks up 'ending' Iran war as oil price jumps and stocks fall after more US troops sent to Middle East

Donald Trump said America was in talks with a "more reasonable regime to end” the war ⁠in Iran as the cost of oil jumped and stocks fell after thousands more US troops were deployed to the Middle East.

As he made the upbeat claim, the US president also repeated his warning to Tehran to open the Strait of Hormuz or risk American attacks on its oil wells and power plants.

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