In a telephone interview with CBS News Monday afternoon, President Trump mentioned the U.S. war with Iran might nearly be over.
“I think the war is very complete, pretty much,” the president mentioned, talking from his Doral, Florida, golf membership. “[Iran has] no navy, no communications, they’ve got no air force. Their missiles are down to a scatter. Their drones are being blown up all over the place, including their manufacturing of drones.”
The U.S. army mentioned it struck over 3,000 Iranian targets within the first week of operations.
“If you look, they have nothing left. There’s nothing left in a military sense,” Mr. Trump mentioned.
Late Sunday, Iran announced that Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei would change his father as Iran’s supreme chief.
“I have no message for him. None, whatsoever,” the president mentioned, including that he has another person in thoughts to guide the nation.
Commercial transport by the Strait of Hormuz, by which about 20% of the worldwide oil provide flows, has effectively ground to a halt.
The president mentioned the U.S. “could do a lot” in regards to the strait and threatened Iran if it inhibits the waterway. “They’ve shot everything they have to shoot, and they better not try anything cute or it’s going to be the end of that country. … If they do anything bad, that would be the end of Iran and you’d never hear the name again.” The president additionally mentioned the strait is open now and claimed ships have been coming into the strait, however mentioned he’s nonetheless “thinking about taking it over.”
Mr. Trump initially estimated the conflict would take a few month to finish.
“We’re very far ahead of schedule,” he informed CBS News on Monday.
The identical afternoon the president mentioned the conflict is “very complete, pretty much,” the Department of Defense posted on X, “We have Only Just Begun to Fight” and “no mercy.”
So far, seven Americans have died in fight. Later Monday, Vice President JD Vance will attend a dignified switch of the stays of U.S. Army Sgt. Benjamin Pennington, who died of accidents he suffered in a March 1 assault at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.
Asked whether or not he thought the conflict might wrap up quickly, the president mentioned, “Wrapping up is all in my mind, nobody else’s.”
