Trump: ‘No Rush’ to Bomb Iran Again as Vance Pushes a Deal and Netanyahu Pushes War
The president tells Axios he’s in no hurry to resume strikes. Vance and Witkoff are pressing for a settlement; Netanyahu and Hegseth want to “finish the job.”
On the eve of the midterms, President Trump is signaling that the bombs aren’t about to fall on Iran again — at least not yet.
“One way or the other, we will do something, but there is no rush,” Trump told Axios in a phone interview on Nov. 2. “We crippled them financially. They have no money, no gasoline and their people are getting very tired of it.”
According to Axios, Trump is weighing three courses of action pushed by three camps inside and around his administration. Vice President JD Vance and envoy Steve Witkoff are urging a deal, arguing a renewed war might not change the situation for the better, a position most Gulf countries back. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth want to resume combat, arguing Iran can’t be trusted and that Trump should finish the job militarily. A third camp — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Secretary of State Marco Rubio — is advising Trump to keep the “no war, no deal” status quo and let economic pressure grind on.
For America First viewers, the lineup is telling: the loudest voice for more war is a foreign head of government, and Rubio — whom Nick Fuentes has warned is being set up for 2028 — is in the camp that keeps the pressure campaign going rather than ending it.
Diplomacy is moving. Qatari mediators have drafted an agreement outlining a three-day sequence of confidence-building measures meant to restart direct U.S.-Iran talks, Axios reported, and mediator Ali al-Thawadi traveled to Tehran on Monday. “We are talking to them. It’s going fine,” Trump said, while complaining that the Iranians “try and tap, tap, tap” and show “less urgency” than expected.
Hours later Trump posted on Truth Social that oil prices were “DROPPING LIKE A ROCK … because people feel that there will not be a War with Iran.”
Vance told reporters he and Trump “feel pretty good about the prospect of reaching a settlement,” adding: “We haven’t set deadlines.” Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said exchanges “have become very intensive” but warned of a response “more painful and severe than in the past” if Washington chooses military operations.
The interview lands days after Tucker Carlson warned of an imminent nuclear strike — a claim Fuentes called “BS.” Trump’s “no rush” is not a promise of peace, but it is not the countdown Carlson described, either.
