US President Donald Trump said on Monday that the war with Iran could be “short-term and a blip”, adding that joint attacks by the United States and Israel will continue until Iran is “totally and decisively defeated”.
“We took a little trip because we felt we had to do it to get rid of a certain evil, and I think you’re going to see that it’s going to be a short-lived episode,” Trump said at the Republican conference in Florida.
He added that if the attacks had not been carried out, Iran “would have had nuclear weapons within two weeks”.
Trump claimed that US and Israeli forces are “crushing” Iran and that Iran’s drone and missile attack capabilities are being “completely destroyed”.
“The navy is gone. Everything is at the bottom of the ocean – 46 ships,” he said, adding that Iranian leaders were repeatedly targeted during the campaign.
Trump stated that the United States will continue military operations until Iran is “totally and decisively defeated.”
His remarks come amid a series of US and Israeli attacks on Iran that began on February 28 and have so far killed more than 1,200 people, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, more than 150 schoolgirls and senior military officials.
Iran retaliated with a series of attacks on US bases, diplomatic facilities and military personnel in the region, as well as on several Israeli cities. At least seven American soldiers were killed in those attacks.
