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US President Donald Trump said Monday that Iran wants to reach a deal with Washington, warning that another US military strike could be approximately five times larger than the previous attack.

In a phone interview with C-SPAN's Washington Journal Primetime, Trump said the duration of the war with Iran depended on how Washington chose to proceed.

“We could knock it out fast, or we could knock it out over a longer period of time,” Trump said.

Trump said Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait preferred the current approach over another major military strike against Iran.

He said he also favored that approach, adding that Iran wanted an agreement despite not publicly acknowledging it.

“I can tell you that Iran would like to make a deal, and we'll find out whether or not that'll happen,” Trump said.

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The Saudi-led coalition said Monday on X that it intercepted and destroyed a drone over Saudi Arabia's oil-rich Eastern Province amid heightened attacks by the Iran-backed Houthis.

The Eastern Province, home to most of Saudi Arabia's oil and gas reserves, has faced multiple attacks by the Houthis in recent weeks.

A YouGov poll released Monday found that 44% of Americans said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who supported the US war with Iran, compared with 13% who said such support would make them more likely to vote for that candidate.

The survey, commissioned by the Institute for Global Affairs at Eurasia Group, found that another 26% said a candidate's position on the war would make little difference to their vote.

Among Democrats, 76% said they would be less likely to support a pro-war candidate, compared with 43% of Independents. Among Republicans, 32% said backing the war would make them more likely to support a candidate, while 13% said it would make them less likely.

The poll also found that 56% of Americans said the United States should prioritize avoiding higher domestic prices over achieving its military objectives in Iran, compared with 22% who favored prioritizing military goals.

On who should decide when the war ends, 53% said Congress should have the final say, compared with 29% who favored President Donald Trump.

The survey was conducted from October 29 to November 2 among 1,000 US adults, ahead of the November 3 midterm elections, with a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points.

Germany's Foreign Ministry on Monday condemned cyberattacks by the IRGC targeting France, calling the attacks unacceptable and pledging solidarity with Paris.

“We strongly condemn the cyberattacks by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, as attributed by France,” the ministry said in a post on X.

“We have repeatedly asked Iran to stop its destabilizing behavior. Such attacks are unacceptable,” it added.

The ministry also pledged to defend Germany's security and values against threats in both the digital and physical domains.

“We stand in solidarity with France and will defend our security and our values–online & offline!” it said.

UN human rights experts called on Iran to end what they described as escalating persecution of independent lawyers, warning that restrictions on legal representation were leaving defendants vulnerable to arbitrary detention, coerced confessions and unfair trials.
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