President Trump said the Iran war may end right after the midterms, or sooner, as Secretary Rubio ordered Iranian negotiators out of New York after stalled talks.

Fox News reported that Secretary of State Marco Rubio abruptly ended the discussions and told Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his team they had to leave the United States after weekend meetings produced no clear breakthrough.

The Iranian delegation departed early Tuesday. The order came more than seven months into the conflict, with sides still split over when Tehran would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, take nuclear steps, and receive any economic relief.

Trump, in a Time interview referenced in the same coverage, claimed the war will end “right after” the November midterms, “maybe before.” Asked whether he would ramp up bombing after the elections, he answered, “Possible.”

He also said the United States has been stocking weapons for the last six months. “We have a lot of weapons. You know, we’ve been stocking up for the last six months,” Trump said. Pressed on whether he might annihilate Iran, he again used the word “possible.”

Rubio decides the Iranians overstayed their welcome

An official confirmed to reporters that Rubio concluded the Iranians had “overstayed their welcome” once high-level United Nations meetings ended. The New York Post reported that Rubio ordered Araghchi and the delegation to leave New York immediately on Monday after little progress.

Visas had been granted so Iranian officials could attend the UN General Assembly despite ongoing hostilities. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian left earlier. Araghchi stayed for indirect talks on the strait, the wider conflict, and the nuclear program.

Those talks ran through Qatari mediators. Weekend sessions yielded scant movement. Trump rejected Iran’s latest proposal. On Tehran’s offer to reopen the strait, he said it was “not good enough. Nearly.”

Rubio has shown a pattern of firm statecraft in other arenas, including when he declared an American scholar wrongfully detained ahead of high-stakes diplomacy with China.

Just The News reported that Rubio lost patience after the informal peace talks stalled and told the Iranians on Monday that the foreign minister and his team had to go.

The United States remains open to negotiations, Rubio has said, but warned there “will be consequences” if Tehran fails to honor its commitments. A seven-day confidence-building idea had been floated. Sequencing stayed the sticking point.

Iran disputes the expulsion account

Iran rejected the U.S. description of the exit. The Iranian UN mission said the delegation left New York on Monday evening on a schedule it had already shared with the State Department on September 17. Breitbart noted the claim and described the Rubio order as a highly unusual diplomatic rebuke after failed low-level talks.

“The Iranian delegation left New York on Monday evening, in accordance with the schedule that had also been communicated to the US Department of State in advance on September 17,” the mission wrote on its official account.

Trump last week told the UN General Assembly he would continue to make sure Iran cannot obtain nuclear weapons. He also denied reports that he had offered sanctions relief or the release of frozen Iranian funds.

State Department messaging under Rubio has drawn its own attention, including the move of Britt McHenry into a State Department press role as the department manages a hard foreign-policy line.

Oil markets still feel the squeeze

Before the war, roughly one-fifth of global crude oil and liquefied natural gas supplies passed through the Strait of Hormuz. Estimates cited by major banks now put recent Middle East exports close to pre-war levels, yet prices remain elevated.

Brent crude settled above $103 a barrel on Wednesday. U.S. crude closed above $90. The national average for regular gasoline stood at about $4.43 a gallon, compared with roughly $3.15 a year earlier. Diesel ran above $6.40 a gallon.

The Washington Examiner reported that Rubio’s order followed the collapse of talks aimed at ending a war that has stretched nearly nine months, with the Iranian delegation having met U.S. officials in New York.

American drivers and shippers are living with those numbers. The administration’s position is that empty process will not reopen the strait or freeze Iran’s nuclear work.

Rubio has also defended broader Trump administration choices on access and accountability, including his case that outlets locked out of the White House building are not being shut down as news organizations.

Pressure without endless concessions

The core dispute is simple. Washington wants concrete steps on shipping lanes and the nuclear file first. Tehran wants economic relief sequenced on its preferred clock. Indirect talks through Qatar did not close that gap.

Trump’s public timeline ties military options to the political calendar without locking the United States into a soft landing. He left open harder strikes after the midterms. He said the arsenal has been rebuilt over six months. He rejected a strait offer he judged incomplete.

National-security removals have been part of the same posture elsewhere, as when a judge cleared the way to deport a Wisconsin mosque leader on national-security grounds.

Rubio’s Monday order closed the New York chapter for this round. Araghchi is gone. The warning about consequences remains. Oil still prices in risk. The midterms sit weeks away on the calendar Trump described.

Iran does not get to run out the clock in Manhattan while American families pay $4 gas and watch the Strait of Hormuz stay a hostage to stalled diplomacy.