President Donald Trump said Iran gave the United States a “present” worth a “tremendous amount of money,” tied to oil and gas and the Strait of Hormuz.

“They did something yesterday that was amazing — they gave us a present… that arrived today,” Trump said in the Oval Office, declining to specify what it was.

“It wasn’t nuclear related, it was oil and gas related,” he added, confirming it was connected to the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump said the move signaled to him that the U.S. is “dealing with the right people,” and expressed confidence the war could soon come to an end.

Asked about future control of the key waterway, Trump responded, “We’ll have control of anything we want.”

Trump on Iran: The leaders are all gone. Nobody knows who to talk to, but we’re actually talking to the right people, and they want to make a deal badly.

Reporter: Are you going to send Jared Kushner and Steve witkoff to do direct negotiations with the Iranians?

Trump: We are in negotiations right now. They doing it along with Marco Rubio and J.D. Vance.

Trump on Iran: And as you know, today we will have the privilege of shooting down and very big electric generation plant, one of the biggest in the world and one shot to the right location ends the plant and it collapses. And we held off based on the fact that we are negotiating.

Trump: They shot 100 missiles at one of our aircraft carriers. Every single one of them was knocked down.

Trump on Iran: We really had regime change. This is a change in the regime because the leaders are all different. I think we can say this is regime change.

Reporter: There’s been reporting that the crown prince of Saudi Arabia has been encouraging you to do certain things related to Iran.

Trump: He is a warrior, he is fighting with us.

Hegseth: This is not Iraq and Afghanistan. This is not a president interested in vague end states; he’s been very clear with us about what we need to accomplish.

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