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President Trump said Iran has been 'decimated' and has 'virtually given up any plans of a nuclear weapon,' adding that a decision on how to proceed — the 'easy way or the hard way' — is forthcoming, possibly after the US midterm elections. Axios reported that Trump's top cabinet officials secretly met at Camp David to discuss next steps in the Iran war alongside the Saudi-Houthi conflict in Yemen, while Trump has also questioned who in Tehran the US could even negotiate with. The remarks continue a pattern of mixed signals from Washington about whether military pressure on Iran will ease or intensify, as the broader conflict's economic and humanitarian fallout — from sanctions to oil market disruption — continues to mount.