India, May 20 -- US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that the United States would "quickly end" the ongoing conflict involving Iran, while Vice President JD Vance said the US was "locked and loaded" if Tehran refused to agree to terms preventing it from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Speaking publicly, Trump said, "...We're going to end that war very quickly. They want to make a deal so badly...You are going to see oil prices plummet. They're going to come down. There's so much oil out there, they're going to come plummeting down."

A 72-hour diplomatic ultimatum has locked Washington and Tehran in a high-stakes standoff. Trump gave Iranian negotiators a window of "two to three days" to finalise a peace treaty aimed at ending the conf...