The current armed conflict with Iran could last four weeks. This was said yesterday by US President Donald Trump in a telephone interview with the British newspaper “Daily Mail“.
“This is a big country, it will take four weeks – or less“, the US president explained.
Three US servicemen were killed and five - seriously injured, in the US military operation against Iran. Iran carried out retaliatory attacks on US military bases in the Persian Gulf region and other targets.
Trump described the dead servicemen as “great people“. “And, you know, we expect that to happen, unfortunately. It could happen all the time – it could happen again“, he added.
Yesterday, the president said in another interview that he would talk to Iranian leaders, but did not specify which leaders and when. “They want to talk and I agreed to talk, so I will talk to them“, Trump said in an interview with the American magazine “The Atlantic“. At the same time, he noted that “most of these people are dead. Some of the ones we talked to are dead“.
In an interview with a journalist from the financial news channel CNBC, he assured that the military operation against Iran “is progressing very well“ and “faster than expected“.
Donald Trump has not appeared in public since the start of the war, which was announced in a pre-recorded video message, nor has Pentagon chief Pete Hegsett or Secretary of State Marco Rubio.