President Donald Trump boasted there’s “practically nothing left to target” in Iran and claimed the war would end “soon.”
“Any time I want it to end, it will end,” the president told Axios in a five-minute phone interview Wednesday.
“The war is going great. We are way ahead of the timetable. We have done more damage than we thought possible, even in the original six-week period,” Trump said.
Trump also gave an update on the strikes by the U.S. and Israel against Iran. These strikes have killed many of the government’s high-ranking officials, including the country’s supreme leader. Am Iranian strike recently killed multiple U.S. service members in Kuwait.
Sixteen mine-laying boats were destroyed by U.S. strikes Tuesday, which the president confirmed to Axios. Trump said the strikes disrupted Iran’s plans, which the president wrote about on Tuesday in a Truth Social post.
“If Iran has put out any mines in the Hormuz Strait, and we have no reports of them doing so, we want them removed, IMMEDIATELY!” Trump posted. “If for any reason mines were placed, and they are not removed forthwith, the Military consequences to Iran will be at a level never seen before.”
CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper released a video Wednesday when he gave an update to the war.
“U.S. combat power is building, Iran’s combat power is declining,” he said.
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Trump added there is more payback the Iranian regime needs to face before all is said and done.
“They were after the rest of the Middle East,” Trump said. “They are paying for 47 years of death and destruction they caused. This is payback. They will not get off that easy.”
