What's Trump's strategy now with Iran? To keep things as they are November 13, 20262:02 PM ET

Aya Batrawy

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

Osamah Abdulrahman/AP

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