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*OH, PLEASE:* Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran wants to reach an agreement with Washington to end the war before the U.S. midterm elections in November. “We don’t want it to get to the midterm elections,” he told NBC News. Pezeshkian said Iran is open to inspections of its nuclear facilities and wants Washington to return to the previous U.S.-Iran framework. He also denied that Tehran has plans to assassinate President Trump or members of his family.