Strait of Hormuz, US and Iran
Digest more
"We are just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact they have no money," Trump said.
The conflict has divided Trump and conservatives who backed his promise to avoid foreign wars.
The 'Fox News Sunday' panel, including Doug Heye, Richard Fowler, Francesca Chambers, and Mario Parker, debates the public perception of Trump's economic policies and potential military action against Iran.
President Trump is confronting a question that has haunted presidents throughout history: how a war - that has gone on longer than predicted - can reshape a presidency.
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy tore into Donald Trump’s ongoing inability to reach an agreement to permanently end the war with Iran on Sunday and said that it was increasingly obvious that Trump would be forced to take a “bad” deal to extract the U.S. from the conflict.
Trump on Truth Social accused Iran's leaders of lying about peace talks, which he said are underway "whether Iran wants to admit it or not."
Iran long considered its deeply buried nuclear enrichment plant at Fordo its best-protected and most advanced site. It was badly damaged, and potentially rendered inoperable, by 12 massive bombs in the June 2025 attacks, according to U.S. intelligence assessments last year.
US President Donald Trump has reportedly signalled to senior aides that he is willing to end the Iran war without securing a nuclear deal with Tehran. But Iran's new demands for reopening the Strait of Hormuz have complicated the US president's efforts to find an exit from the conflict,