US says no need for new attacks but calls Iran's peace terms 'absurd'

US says no need for new attacks but calls Iran's peace terms 'absurd' The US is downplaying the chances of a fresh attack against Iran even as it characterises Tehran’s conditions for a political settlement as “absurd”. US President Donald Trump said on Monday after meeting Qatar’s prime minister at the White House that the war was “effectively over” and that there was “momentum” to end the conflict. Trump has used deescalatory language since the Republican Party was badly defeated in US midterm elections on 3 Nove