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President Donald Trump said during a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday that he isn’t concerned about making a deal soon with Iran, adding that he doesn’t “care about the midterms” in what he said he thinks is the regime’s calculation that he has to negotiate a deal before what are expected to be highly-competitive elections in November.

“They thought they were going to out-wait me, you know. ‘We’ll out-wait him. He’s got the midterms.’ I don’t care about the midterms. Look what happened last night, that was a prelude to the midterms. People understand it,” Trump said, likely referencing his endorsed candidate, Ken Paxton, winning the Senate Republican runoff in Texas.

With tensions escalating with Iran and gas prices still up across the country, Trump said he feels no urgency to end the war.

“Mr. President, you’ve said that you’re in no rush to make a deal, but with gas prices that are still high across the country, people are paying more for travel. Does that give you more urgency to make a deal? Why doesn’t it?” ABC News Senior Political Correspondent Rachel Scott asked Trump during the Cabinet meeting.

“Well, I’ll tell you, the primary urgency, I’ve said this, it wasn’t covered properly, but the primary urgency is that we can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon,” Trump responded.

The president also appeared to issue a new threat against Oman, a key American ally in the Middle East.

Trump said he would not accept a short-term deal that allows Iran and Oman to control the Strait of Hormuz — as reported in Iranian state media, and that the critical shipping lane will be “open to everybody.”

“Oman will behave just like everybody else or we’ll have to blow them up. They understand that,” Trump said.

Trump on Wednesday was asked whether he would consider easing any sanctions on Iran. He said no.

“No, we’re not talking about any easing of sanctions or giving money. No sanctions, no money, no nothing,” Trump said. “We have control of money that they claim is theirs. We’ll keep control of that money. And when they behave properly and when they do what’s right, we’ll let them have their money. But right now, we’re not doing that … One thing is not contingent on the other.”

The comments come after a senior administration official told reporters over the weekend that Iran could be rewarded with a lifting of sanctions and unfreezing of assets in exchange for a deal on its nuclear program.

On the status of negotiations, Trump said on Wednesday he’s “not satisfied” and that Iran is “negotiating on fumes.”

“We’re not satisfied with it, but we will be. We will be. Either that or we’ll have to just finish the job,” Trump said.

The Israel Defense Forces said on Sunday that it had “completed another wave of strikes” targeting what it said was infrastructure of the Iranian government in Tehran and in other areas of Iran.

The speaker of the Iranian parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said in a statement on Sunday that Iranian forces are preparing for a U.S. ground operation despite ongoing diplomatic maneuvers.

“The enemy openly sends messages of negotiation and dialogue and secretly plans a ground attack,” Ghalibaf said in a message addressed to the Iranian people on the 30th day of the war, the semi-official ILNA news agency reported Sunday.

Ghalibaf said that Tehran will continue its regional attacks, adding that the Iranian military is “waiting for the arrival of American soldiers on the ground to set fire to them and punish their regional partners forever.”

“These days, we hear different words and statements from enemy officials about negotiations. America expresses its desires and announces what it has not achieved in the war as a list of 15 points and seeks them in diplomacy,” Ghalibaf said.

“As long as the Americans seek Iran’s surrender, your children’s response to these American aspirations is clear: ‘We will not accept humiliation,'” he added.

In a statement issued on Monday and published by the semi-official Fars news agency, Iran’s Defense Council threatened to deploy naval mines across the “entire Persian Gulf” in response to any land invasion.

The council issued the statement ahead of the potential arrival of a force of U.S. Marines in the region.

“Any attempt by the enemy to target Iran’s coasts or islands will, naturally and in accordance with established military practice, lead to the mining of all access routes” in the “Persian Gulf and along the coasts,” the council said.

President Donald Trump said Monday he had instructed the Pentagon “to postpone any and all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five day period, subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions.”

Trump said Washington and Tehran “have had, over the last two days, very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East.”

The president had threatened to strike Iranian power plants on Saturday unless Tehran ended its efforts to block commercial shipping from transiting the strategic Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours. That deadline was set to expire on Monday evening.

Trump said Monday that U.S.-Iran talks would “continue throughout the week.”