India, Oct. 8 -- Donald Trump wants the Nobel Peace Prize. Again. And this time the US President says the arithmetic is simple: eight wars settled, hostages brought home and more conflicts stopped before they could start.

There is, however, an awkward footnote to the peace resume - Iran.

Even as Trump made another public pitch for the world's most celebrated peace award from the Oval Office on Wednesday, the war his administration launched against Iran is still running into its eighth month, leaving a trail of deaths, economic disruption and turmoil in global energy markets.

None of that appeared to dent the President's confidence.

"I've done stuff that nobody else has ever done. I'm not bragging; I'm just telling you the facts," Trum...