Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.
President Trump says the U.S.
Could be ending its Iran offensive in two to three weeks.
The White House has announced the president will speak to the nation tonight.
NPR's Mara Liason has more.
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt says the president will give the country an important update on Iran.
The televised address comes a day after Trump reversed himself,
dropping his demand that Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
He had threatened to, quote, completely obliterate Iran's civilian electric plants,
oil wells, and desalinization plants if Iran did n't open the strait shortly.
But now he says the U.S.
Will be leaving Iran very soon, and if other countries want to get oil through the strait,
they can, quote, fend for themselves.
Trump says we're not going to have anything to do with it.
With gas prices in the U.S. Breaking $4 a gallon, the president seems eager to find a way to end the war,
even if many of his political objectives, including unconditional surrender, have not been met.
Mara Liason, NPR News.
Meanwhile, in an interview published today by the British newspaper The Telegraph,
Trump says he is considering pulling the U.S. Out of NATO.
He described the Western military alliance as a, quote, paper tiger.