Mourners carry coffins during the funeral of people killed in recent airstrikes on al-Shariya village, northeast of Sanaa, which Houthi authorities blamed on Saudi Arabia, in Houthi-controlled Sanaa, Yemen, Nov. 11, 2026. Osamah Abdulrahman/AP hide caption

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — President Trump is confronting new realities nine months into the war with Iran that leave him with dwindling options to ending the conflict.

On Thursday, he waved away the need for a deal with Iran, saying the U.S. has billions of Iran's dollars frozen in overseas accounts.

"We don't need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed. We've got their money," he wrote in a Truth Social post.

Negotiations with Iran are stuck with mediator Qatar working to bridge the divide. Trump met Qatar's prime minister at the White House this week, and said afterward that Gulf Arab allies prefer "the status quo" of continued economic pressure on Iran. He wrote that while the U.S.…