While Donald Trump said in an election speech in Alabama on Friday night that the war would probably end immediately after the election, the Axios website reported that a number of senior national security officials discussed the US's next steps in the war with Iran in an unannounced meeting at Camp David for several hours that day.

While Donald Trump said in an election speech in Alabama on Friday night that the war would probably end immediately after the election, the Axios website reported that a number of senior national security officials discussed the US's next steps in the war with Iran in an unannounced meeting at Camp David for several hours that day.

According to this report, the meeting was chaired by Jeddy Vance, the Vice President of the United States, and Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, Pete Hegst, the Secretary of Defense, Steve Witkoff, the White House envoy, John Ratcliffe, the head of the CIA, and General Dan Cain, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Army.

A US official told Axios that at this meeting important issues of the Middle East were "decided" or "at least discussed separately". The White House did not comment on this.

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