NEW YORK, October 25. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump has said that he faces a choice between striking a deal with Iran and "finishing it off."

"I have a decision to make. Do I finish it off, which would be very easy to do, or do I make a deal?" he told Fox News.

He once again claimed that oil prices would go down as soon as the conflict with Iran is over.

On Saturday, Trump once again said that he was weighing the resumption of US strikes against Iran if no deal is made.

The United States and Israel launched a war against Iran on February 28. In June, Washington and Tehran signed a memorandum of understanding envisaging an immediate ceasefire on all fronts, including in Lebanon. However, the United States resumed large-scale attacks on Iran overnight to July 8, having accused it of breaching the existing agreements in what concerned the Strait of Hormuz, a global chokepoint for approximately 25% of oil and some 20% of LNG supplies.

Later, the US administration actually signaled that it was ceasing the use of military force against Iran and was embarking on a path of its economic suffocation through tougher sanctions.