President Trump voiced optimism on Tuesday {that a} peace deal will be reached with Iran, whereas insisting the battle had already been received.
“This war has been won,” Mr. Trump stated within the Oval Office. “The only one that likes to keep it going is the fake news.”
“We killed all their leadership,” he stated when CBS News’ Ed O’Keefe requested which Iranians the U.S. was now negotiating with. “And then they met to choose new leaders and we killed all of them. And now we have a new group, and we can easily do that, but let’s see how they turn out.”
“It’s — we have, really, regime change,” the president stated. “You know, this is a change in the regime, because the leaders are all very different than the ones that we started off with that created all those problems. So this was, I think we can say, Jason, this is regime change, right?”
Iran’s new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei is the son of the previous supreme chief, Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the primary day of the battle. While the brand new chief has not been seen since he was tapped to succeed his father, and he is believed to have been wounded in the identical strike, there have been no indicators of a disintegration of Islamic Republic’s well-defined energy construction, with the highly effective Islamic Revolutionary Guard nonetheless defiant, and seemingly accountable for Iran’s battle effort.
O’Keefe requested the president why he trusts Iran.
“I don’t trust anybody,” Mr. Trump responded. “I don’t trust you.”
O’Keefe requested why the U.S. ought to trouble speaking to the Iranians.
“Because they’re going to make a deal,” Mr. Trump stated.
