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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
James C. Reynolds,Rebecca Whittaker,Rachel Dobkin and Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

Iran-US war latest: Trump says conflict will end in ‘two to three weeks’ as drone sparks fire at Kuwait airport

US president Donald Trump has claimed that his war on Iran will end in “two to three weeks” and that peace will bring oil prices “tumbling down”.His statement comes after Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said that no negotiations were ongoing with Washington despite direct and indirect exchanges of messages.

Trump told reporters that “Iran doesn’t have to make a deal” to end the conflict, adding that “we'll be leaving very soon". He gave a timeline for the US withdrawing from the conflict as "within ​two weeks, maybe two weeks, maybe ⁠three."Trump said ​the requirement for winding down ‌the operation was that ⁠Iran be "put into the Stone Age," without the ability to soon acquire a nuclear ‌weapon.

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