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Thursday, April 23, 2026
Trump says Americans should expect higher gas prices due to Iran war for ‘a little while’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleJacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
WASHINGTON — Asked how much longer Americans should expect to pay higher gas prices due to the Iran war, US President Donald Trump responds, “for a little while.”
“And you know what they get for that? Iran without a nuclear weapon that’s going try to blow up one of our cities or the entire Middle East,” Trump tells reporters in the Oval Office.
Trump again declines to put a timeline for how long he is willing to wait for Iran to respond to the latest proposal for a permanent ceasefire.
“Don’t rush me,” Trump tells a reporter, noting that previous US wars were far longer than the current one with Iran.
Trump again claims that internal divisions are preventing Iran from producing a unified response in talks with the US. “They’re fighting like cats and dogs over who’s going to control. We’ve created a real mess for them.”
“We’ve hit about 75% of our targets. We stopped primarily because they wanted to have some peace,” Trump says.
Trump admits that Iran may have loaded up their weaponry “a little bit” during the the ongoing ceasefire but claims that the US military can knock that out in about one day.
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