Trump keeps hinting he’ll resume the Iran war after the midterms. These Iowa GOP voters sound wary

President Donald Trump is hinting at renewed war with Iran after the November midterms, and Republicans in Iowa, a state squeezed by the fighting, are mostly uneasy about it, CNN reports. Trump told a crowd in Sioux City on Thursday that Iran would be finished "very soon" and that gasoline prices would fall, even as he has said he does not plan new strikes before Election Day.

US officials told CNN that advisers have prepared strikes with Israel against nuclear sites, energy facilities and remaining missile and drone stocks, envisioned as brief but intense. The largest non-nuclear weapon is among the options being weighed.

Iowa farmers face higher fuel and transport costs, and two of the state's service members, Maj. Jeffrey O'Brien and Sgt. Declan Coady, died in a drone attack in Kuwait early in the conflict. Voter Christine Brenden said a tank of gas rose from about $40 to $60 in a year. Republican Senate nominee Ashley Hinson voted against curbing Trump's war powers yet urges a swift, successful end, in a tight race with Democrat Josh Turek.

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