Meanwhile, the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, keeping global energy prices high and adding to economic anxieties worldwide.Â
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After a string of reports this week that Iran was shutting down talks, Trump told CNBC he “couldn’t care less” if the negotiations had bogged down and even mused they had become “boring.”
US President Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, June 3, 2026. Photographer: Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Trump is privately hearing from other Republican lawmakers as well as Pentagon officials and Gulf allies that a return to the bombing campaign is a bad idea.
Those advising against returning to military action note that the U.S. has burned through munitions at too fast a rate. It could take three years to replenish some key weapons systems.
Only US, China can retrieve Iran’s enriched uranium, Trump says
Nuclear watchdog unable to fully monitor Iran
Andrea Stricker with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies joins LiveNOW’s Austin Westfall to discuss new reporting from the Associated Press on the UN’s nuclear watchdog being unable to inspect nuclear facilities in Iran.
“We attacked their nuclear sites and they were obliterated,” he told reporters in the Oval Office. “But the only ones that have the capability of getting it out are us and China.”
“That mountain literally collapsed on top of it.”
