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After threatening a \u201cmassive attack,\u201d the president said his envoys were talking with Tehran but left open the possibility of a sharp military escalation.<\/strong><\/p>

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President Donald Trump arrives at Dobbins Air Reserve Base on Wednesday in Marietta, Georgia. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

President Donald Trump leaned hard on Friday into what he said were negotiations with Iranian officials, seeming to emphasize diplomacy over military escalation after days of attacks by both sides<\/a> and warnings that the White House was considering a sharp escalation of the war.<\/p>\n

Six times during a 38-minute Oval Office appearance on Friday, the president mentioned that his envoys were talking to Iran. The rhetorical emphasis on diplomacy followed days in which he suggested that he was ready to increase military pressure on the Middle Eastern country.<\/p>\n

The shift tracked a familiar pattern for Trump, who has oscillated between military pressure and diplomacy in the five months since he launched the war against Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a military exit where we just keep going just the way we are, and we can even make it a heavier dose, and it\u2019s knocking out everything they have. Or there\u2019s a smarter strategy that you make a deal. And they want to make a deal,\u201d Trump told reporters. \u201cAs we speak, we\u2019re talking to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iranian leaders have embraced their newfound leverage over the strait<\/a>, which was fully open to shipping traffic before the United States and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran in late February. Iran\u2019s military has been hit hard by airstrikes, but the regime has proved resilient \u2014 and it has also shown that it needs little more than a handful of inexpensive attack drones and some mines to project power over global energy markets.<\/p>\n

The Houthis\u2019 attacks on oil tankers have expanded the range of the conflict and helped send the price of crude oil above $100 on Thursday. On Friday, the price eased slightly, to roughly $96 per barrel \u2014 far higher than the $60 level at the start of this year.<\/p>\n

Trump insisted, however, that it was the Iranians who were feeling pressure, not him.<\/p>

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Tehran is \u201cgetting more and more serious as the days go by, for maybe the obvious reason,\u201d Trump said, suggesting that military attacks were increasing the Iranians\u2019 willingness to make a deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can take that to a much higher level if we want to, you know. We\u2019re prepared to do that,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe\u2019re locked and loaded and ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump told Axios on Thursday: \u201cI am considering a massive attack. Bigger than ever before. I am close to making a decision. We are all set for it.\u201d Asked about that on Friday, he struck a different note, once again saying that the two sides were talking.<\/p>\n

Iranian strikes on U.S. targets in the Middle East have killed four U.S. service members in the past two weeks<\/a>, and the president visited Dover Air Force Base on Wednesday for a dignified transfer ceremony to mark the return of some of their remains.<\/p>\n

There appears to be little immediate end to the conflict in sight. Trump said shortly after launching the war that the conflict would take four to six weeks. Five months later, he held open the possibility on Friday that it could still be going at the midterm elections in November, a prospect that has spooked many congressional Republicans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll see what comes of it. I\u2019m not, you know, despite what everyone says about the election, I\u2019m not in a hurry,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe have to do it right. Elections take care of themselves.\u201d<\/p>

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