Trump on how lengthy the war could final, the Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s new supreme chiefrevealed at 19:59 GMT
Donald Trump has given a cellphone interview to CBS News, the BBC’s US media accomplice, during which he has signalled the war could end prior to the administration has beforehand indicated.
The US president is because of give a press convention in round ninety minutes the place we might right here or more. While we wait, listed here are his feedback to CBS in full.
On the progress of the war: “I think the war is very complete, pretty much. They have 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. If you look, they have nothing left. There’s nothing left in a military sense.”
On authentic timeline for operation: “We’re very far ahead of schedule… I don’t know, it depends. Wrapping up is all in my mind, nobody else’s.”
On Iranian missiles: “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.”
On the Strait of Hormuz: US is “thinking about taking it over” and could do “a lot”.
On if he has a most popular new Iranian chief in thoughts: “I don’t want to say anything about that but yeah, I do.”
On the brand new supreme chief Mojtaba Khamenei: “I have no message for him. None, whatsoever.”
