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Robert Tait in Washington

Trump accuses Iran of stalling peace deal to ‘outwait’ him until US midterms

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Donald Trump during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Wednesday. Photograph: Kent Nishimura/AFP/Getty Images

Donald Trump has accused Iran of trying to stall on making a peace agreement by running down the clock before November’s US midterm elections in the hope of getting better terms.

“They thought they were going to outwait me, you know, ‘we’ll outwait him, he’s got the midterms’,” the US president told a meeting of his cabinet at the White House on Wednesday.

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