President Donald Trump said Friday that Americans should be prepared for the fighting with Iran to continue, predicting Tehran would eventually ‘peter out’ as U.S. strikes steadily weaken its ability to retaliate.
Trump’s Remarks
Asked whether the back-and-forth attacks could continue until Iran was no longer capable of striking back, Trump said, ‘Yeah, sure, I think so. I’d be foolish to say no. You know, you always have to keep your guard up.’ ‘They’ll get weaker. They’ll get a little stronger, maybe. But they’ll get weaker, and then they peter out,’ Trump said during a Cabinet meeting at Camp David, Maryland.
The remarks amounted to an acknowledgment that the five-month conflict could drag on, despite Trump’s claims that the U.S. has decimated Iran’s military and his optimism just days ago that renewed negotiations could produce a deal. ‘I think we just want to win,’ Trump said. ‘We’re doing very well. We’re trying to be nice — as nice as you can be in a situation like that — but they’re being decimated.’ ‘They have no navy. They have no air force. They have no anti-aircraft,’ he added. ‘It doesn’t mean they don’t have any capability. They have some, but very little.’
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