President Trump over the weekend signaled the U.S. will now rely more on economic pressures than military strikes on Iran to force an end to their war.

"We are low-keying it," Trump told the news outlet Axios. "We are only semi-negotiating with them. We are just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact they have no money."

The U.S. began attacking Iran in late February after failed attempts to get the rogue Middle East nation to wind down its nuclear-enrichment program, toward developing a nuclear weapon.

Negotiations to end the war have since failed, with Iran using control of the Strait of Hormuz, a key international oil and natural gas shipping lane, as leverage for the U.S. to end sanctions and end the war.

Trump also told Axios that Iran "is in very bad shape" economically.

"It will work out. It always works out. It's like a chess game," he said about the negotations.