TEHRAN — U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that US military operations in Iran would be ending soon, reassuring markets that have been thrust into chaos by a war that is still reverberating across the Middle East. The war had sent stock markets slumping and oil prices soaring again on Monday as Tehran, under new leader Mojtaba Khamenei, fired a fresh barrage of missiles at its Gulf neighbors and signaled that the strategic Strait of Hormuz would likely remain closed. But Wall Street then climbed into positive territory with Trump’s repeated signals of a short-term conflict, despite the lack of details and amid threats that the United States could step up a war campaign that has hit more than 5,000 targets so far, according to the US military. “It’s going to be ended soon, and if it starts up again they’ll be hit even harder,” Trump told a news conference in Florida, after telling an audience of lawmakers that the campaign would be a “short-term excursion.” Trump’s remarks came on the first day in power for the 56-year-old son of slain leader Ali Khamenei, with Iranian forces laun
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