US Prime Minister Donald Trump will address the American people on April 1 regarding the military operation against Iran, White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt announced.
“Tomorrow night, at 9:00 p.m. (3:00 a.m. Bulgarian time on April 2), President Trump will address the nation to provide important up-to-date information on Iran“, Leavitt said.
The United States will end its military campaign against Iran within two to three weeks, Trump previously announced.
“I think we will withdraw within two to three weeks“, he told reporters at the White House, commenting on the military operation against Iran.
“We are ending "The job is done. I think in a few weeks, maybe a few days, we'll get it done," the US president said.
“We've already achieved regime change. Although I didn't set a goal for regime change. I had one goal - to prevent them from getting nuclear weapons. And that goal has been achieved - they're not going to get nuclear weapons. They don't have leaders, all their leaders are dead. So, the regime change has happened. Now we have good new leaders," the White House chief said.
When asked whether Iran should agree to a deal to end the conflict, Trump replied “no“. "We are currently negotiating with them".
Trump said he was not concerned about Iran's threats against major American companies operating in the Middle East.
"What did they threaten them with? Paintball guns? I don't know. Or did they say something bad", the American leader replied.
"Did they say they would blow them up? Do you know what they won't do? They won't hit them with nuclear weapons", the White House chief added.
Earlier, the press service of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps reported that Iran would consider the facilities of 18 American companies in the Middle East to be legitimate targets because they cooperate with the American military. The list included Cisco, HP, Intel, Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, IBM, Nvidia, JPMorgan, Tesla, GE and Boeing.
Trump said the US had no plans to normalise shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
“We're going to leave very soon. And if France or any other country wants oil or gas, they'll go through the Strait, the Strait of Hormuz, they'll go right there and they can take care of themselves. I actually think it's going to be very safe, but we have nothing to do with it,“ he told reporters at the White House.
“What's going to happen to the Strait? We're not going to have anything to do with it, because these countries, China, are going to go there, fuel up their nice ships, sail away and take care of themselves. We have no reason to do that,“ the US leader added.