{"id":5799,"date":"2026-04-01T04:36:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/trump-tells-allies-get-your-own-oil-says-iran-war-could-end-in-2-3-weeks\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T04:36:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:36:02","slug":"trump-tells-allies-get-your-own-oil-says-iran-war-could-end-in-2-3-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/trump-tells-allies-get-your-own-oil-says-iran-war-could-end-in-2-3-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tells allies \u2018get your own oil\u2019, says Iran war could end in 2-3 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>President Donald Trump has said the United States could stop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/inside-story\/2026\/3\/31\/whats-behind-donald-trumps-interest-in-irans-kharg-island\">attacking Iran<\/a> within two to three weeks and that a deal is not necessary to end a war that has disrupted energy supplies and shaken the global economy.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came as Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/31\/no-truth-to-us-iranian-negotiations-irans-fm-tells-al-jazeera\">told Al Jazeera<\/a> on Tuesday that no negotiations are going on with Washington despite direct and indirect exchanges of messages, nearly five weeks after the US and Israel began attacking Iran.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 3 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/31\/war-on-iran-uss-history-of-making-other-nations-pay-for-conflicts\">War on Iran: US\u2019s history of making other nations pay for conflicts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/2026\/3\/31\/trump-attacks-nato-allies-as-pressure-mounts-over-strait-of-hormuz\">Trump attacks NATO allies as pressure mounts over Strait of Hormuz<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/inside-story\/2026\/3\/31\/whats-behind-donald-trumps-interest-in-irans-kharg-island\">What\u2019s behind Donald Trump\u2019s interest in Iran\u2019s Kharg Island?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>Trump, who previously claimed that Iran was engaged in negotiations and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/26\/as-trump-claims-us-winning-tehran-asserts-legal-right-over-hormuz-strait\">\u201cbegging\u201d for a deal<\/a>, appeared to change his tune on Tuesday on the alleged diplomatic drive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran doesn\u2019t have to make a deal, no,\u201d he said when asked by reporters at the White House if successful diplomacy was a prerequisite for the US to wind down the conflict. He said the US would be \u201cleaving very soon \u2026 maybe two weeks, maybe three.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we feel that they are, for a long period of time, put into the Stone Ages and they won\u2019t be able to come up with a nuclear weapon, then we\u2019ll leave,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has always maintained that its nuclear activities are peaceful and that it has never sought to produce a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Trita Parsi, a foreign policy expert on Iran at the Quincy Institute, told Al Jazeera that Trump\u2019s statements should be treated with caution. He noted that it would not be \u201cas easy for Trump to just walk out\u201d of a conflict that has spread across the region and killed thousands of people \u2013 mostly in Iran and Lebanon, where Israel has launched a ground invasion in conjunction with aerial bombardment \u2013 including many civilians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember, at first they said that this war would be over in four days. Then, three weeks ago, they said it would take three weeks. Three weeks have passed, and now we hear that it\u2019s two to three weeks,\u201d Parsi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe timeline just keeps on being extended because, at the end of the day, the United States is no longer in control of this war\u201d, which has now turned into a \u201cdebacle\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be much better for Trump to just end it as quickly as possible through real negotiations. Not these types of coercive measures that have been tried so far. Otherwise, three weeks from now, we\u2019re likely going to hear that it\u2019s going to take another three weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"go-get-your-own-oil\">\u2018Go get your own oil!\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Trump\u2019s comments came as domestic petrol prices jumped past an average of $4 a gallon (3.8 litres) as a result of Iran\u2019s attacks on Gulf oil facilities and its continued squeezing of fuel supplies through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2026\/3\/31\/three-scenarios-for-the-strait-of-hormuz\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, a vital waterway through which one-fifth of the world\u2019s oil and liquified natural gas passes.<\/p>\n<p>But with the war hitting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/31\/us-israel-launch-major-attacks-as-iranian-authorities-maintain-defiance\">new levels of intensity<\/a>, Trump has continued to lash out at allied countries that have refused calls for military help to secure freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Truth Social, the US president took aim at countries, \u201clike the United Kingdom\u201d, which have \u201crefused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran\u201d, telling them to either buy US fuel or get involved in the rapidly escalating war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won\u2019t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren\u2019t there for us. Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, US defence chief Pete Hegseth also highlighted the UK\u2019s reticence about joining the war, saying that \u201clast time I checked, there was supposed to be a big, bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that as well\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>UK Defence Secretary John Healey addressed the criticism, insisting during a trip to Qatar that his country remained a key ally of the US.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate post on Truth Social, Trump had also hit out at France for being \u201cVERY UNHELPFUL\u201d, in particular in not letting \u201cplanes headed to Israel, loaded up with military supplies, fly over French territory\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s office noted that its position, including not authorising the use of French bases for attacks on Iran, had been clear from the get-go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are surprised by this tweet. France has not changed its position since day one [of the conflict] and we confirm this decision,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Parsi said Trump was \u201ctrying to create a narrative of success\u201d by saying that opening the Strait of Hormuz is not part of the US objective in the war on Iran. But at the same time, the US president has shown frustration that European countries are unwilling to help him reopen the important waterway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US has the largest and most powerful navy in the world. If the US cannot do it, what difference can the French make and other Europeans going in?\u201d he asked, predicting that Iran \u201cwill continue to control the Strait of Hormuz, and will probably continue to shoot at it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Parsi also noted that Trump\u2019s claim that he wanted to send Iranians back to the \u201cStone Age\u201d was \u201cessentially the Israelisation of America\u2019s war aims\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is how the Israelis are conducting the war. They are not looking for any strategic objective beyond the fact that they just want to make sure that their neighbours are as weak as possible, and every two to three years, they bomb them again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/5\/16\/israel-kills-more-than-500-palestinians-in-the-west-bank-since-october-7\">mowing the lawn<\/a>\u2018 strategy,\u201d he added, referring to Israel\u2019s periodic attacks against Palestinians in recent decades.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with a US broadcaster on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on war crimes charges over Israel\u2019s genocidal war on Gaza, argued that the war on Iran was \u201cdefinitely beyond the halfway point \u2026 in terms of missions, not necessarily in terms of time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I don\u2019t want to put a schedule on it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has said the United States could stop attacking Iran within two to three weeks and that a deal is not necessary to end a war that has disrupted energy supplies and shaken the global economy. 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