Trump Pushes for Speedy End to Iran War
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The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:26.5 | President Trump tells AIDS that he wants a speedy end to the Iran war. Plus, a look at the |
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| 0:55.9 | Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines |
| 1:01.2 | and business stories moving your world today. Nearly a month into the war with Iran, President |
| 1:07.9 | Trump has privately told advisors that he believes the conflict is in its |
| 1:11.8 | final stages and hopes for a diplomatic settlement to bring it to an end within weeks. |
| 1:16.6 | We're winning so big. Nobody's ever seen anything like we're doing in the Middle East with Iran. |
| 1:22.4 | And they are negotiating, by the way, and they want to make a deal so badly, but they're afraid |
| 1:26.3 | to say it because they figure |
| 1:28.4 | they'll be killed by their own people. They're also afraid they'll be killed by us. That was Trump |
| 1:34.3 | speaking at an event in Washington last night. We report that while there are no easy options for |
| 1:39.4 | ending the war, and the president still has objectives like securing U.S. access to some of Iran's oil, |
| 1:45.2 | Trump's attention has at times shifted. In discussions with political allies, Trump has begun |
| 1:50.2 | focusing on November's midterms, tightening voter eligibility rules and addressing long lines at airports. |
| 1:56.8 | Close advisors also want him to prioritize the most pressing issue facing voters, concerns about the cost of living, which have been exacerbated by the war. |
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