New Delhi, April 15 -- US President Donald Trump says the war with Iran is over. The US Navy enforcing a blockade of Iranian ports, six merchant vessels being turned back at sea, and Tehran threatening strikes across the region suggest otherwise.

In a brief clip posted to X on Tuesday ahead of a full interview set to air on Fox, journalist Maria Bartiromo offered a preview that immediately commanded attention. She said she repeatedly asked Trump: "Mr. President, you refer to war as 'was' - is it over?" Trump's response was: "I think it's close to over. Yeah. I mean I view it as very close to over."

The clip, described as a curtain raiser ahead of Wednesday's broadcast, landed at a moment of acute tension - just as the US military confir...