Still no sign of a solution in Iran: US president says the war will be over soon
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Donald Trump again says the Iran war will be over "soon"... The US president has said this in some way, shape or form a number of times in recent days.Yet, there's still no solution on the horizon in the Middle East. March 9: Trump said the war was “very complete, pretty much.” March 24: He reportedly said the U.S. and Israel had “won” the war. April 14: In a Fox Business interview, Trump said the war was “very close to being over.” April 16: CBS reported Trump again saying the conflict was “very close to over.” May 1: In a letter to Congress, he declared the hostilities had “terminated.” May 7:Trump said there was a “very good chance” the war was nearing an end and spoke optimistically about peace negotiations. This Thursday, there is word of a 14 point memorandum under consideration by Tehran. Key in the demands being made by Washington is a moratorium on Iran's enrichment of uranium. In return there'd be a lifting of sanctions against Iran and an unfreezing of assets.