Iran Made a Major Energy-Related Gift to United States, says Trump

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Iran had made a ​major energy-related concession to the United States, describing it ‌as a positive development, although he did not give details. 

Trump suggested the gift was related to the Strait of Hormuz, the oil ​transit waterway that the United States has struggled to ​keep open. "They gave us a present and the ⁠present arrived today, and it was a very big present, ​worth a tremendous amount of money," Trump told reporters in the ​Oval



Office.

"It wasn't nuclear, it was oil-and gas-related, and it was a very nice thing they did." Trump, reiterating that he felt the United ​States had already won the war, indicated that Defense ​Secretary Pete Hegseth was disappointed as how quickly the campaign had gone. 

"Pete didn't ‌want ⁠it to be settled," he said, but did not give details. Trump said the United States was talking to "the right people" in Iran in order to reach a deal to end ​hostilities, adding the ​Iranians wanted to reach a ⁠deal very badly.