Trump said he thinks the war will end "immediately" after the election.
President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military, government and infrastructure sites.
Delegations from the U.S. and Iran entered negotiations in June aimed at a war-ending deal based on a memorandum of understanding signed by both countries.
The U.S. and Iran have nonetheless continued to exchange strikes, with the strategic Strait of Hormuz as the primary flashpoint. Trump said in August that the U.S. would launch a "crushing economic operation" to force Tehran into submission.
President Donald Trump said the war will end and gas prices will come down after the midterms.
"I think the war is going to end immediately after the election. I think the war will end immediately after the election because they can't hold out any longer," he told reporters on Wednesday.
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi condemned the International Atomic Energy Agency's resolution on the country's nuclear program on Wednesday, saying that the resolution is based on "fabrications" and will not achieve what its signatories intend.
"They attack Iran's nuclear facilities under safeguards, disrupt the normal verification process, and then use that very disruption as a pretext to issue a resolution at the Board of Governors," Gharibabadi wrote in a post on X.
The IAEA reported Iran to the U.N. Security Council for failure to cooperate in a long-running investigation into uranium traces detected by inspectors at various undeclared sites in Iran, according to the Associated Press.
The resolution was put forward by the U.S., Britain, France and Germany, according to the AP.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) Centre said that it received a report of a tanker being attacked in the northern Persian Gulf on Wednesday morning.
The tanker was hit by an "unknown projectile" south-east of Al-Faw, Iraq, the UKMTO alert said. "Crew are reported safe and there is no environmental impact reported at this time," the UKMTO added.
Also on Wednesday, the UKMTO issued another report of a vessel spotted listing off Port Rashid in the United Arab Emirates, "possibly indicating water ingress following an attack from an unknown projectile."
Iran on Wednesday condemned the latest U.S. attacks on Iranian oil tankers and said its subsequent strikes on regional U.S. targets were in self-defense.
"The aggressive actions by the United States against Iranian commercial vessels not only represent a dangerous escalation of tensions in the region but also constitute an outright threat to regional and international peace and security," the Iranian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The ministry said its subsequent "defensive strikes" targeted "U.S. military bases and facilities located in Jordan that continue to support U.S. military aggressions against Iran, as well as several U.S. aggressive vessels."
Iranian forces, it added, "will not hesitate to exercise their inherent right of self-defense and will respond decisively and appropriately to any enemy military aggression."
-ABC News' Morgan Winsor
