{"id":303854,"date":"2026-10-09T11:20:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=303854"},"modified":"2026-10-09T11:57:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:57:04","slug":"trump-us-will-not-launch-an-attack-on-iran-before-novembers-us-midterm-congressional-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/303854\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: US will not launch an attack on Iran before November&#8217;s US midterm congressional elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>US President Donald Trump said that the US will not launch an attack on Iran before November&rsquo;s US midterm congressional elections, asserting that the two countries are having &ldquo;productive&rdquo; talks about ending the six-month-old war, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/trump-us-having-productive-talks-with-iran-will-not-attack-before-us-elections-2026-10-08\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The war, which began in &#8288;February when the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran, has helped drive Trump&rsquo;s domestic approval ratings downward and is weighing heavily on his fellow Republicans as they seek to preserve their narrow legislative majorities in November&rsquo;s election.<\/p>\n<p>Some 60% of Americans &mdash; including one in four Republicans &mdash; disapprove of how Trump is handling the situation in Iran, according to a recent Reuters\/Ipsos poll. The conflict has pushed gasoline prices sharply higher at a time when voters say their top concern is the cost of &#8288;living.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has repeatedly said he expects oil prices to drop after the elections, but he has not offered a detailed plan for exiting the war.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump said that the US will not launch an attack on Iran before November&rsquo;s US midterm congressional elections, asserting that the two countries are having &ldquo;productive&rdquo; talks about ending the six-month-old war, Reuters reports. The war, which began in &#8288;February when the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran, has helped drive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":303802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-iran-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303855,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303854\/revisions\/303855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}