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U.S. President Donald Trump gave his highly anticipated national address Wednesday night in the U.S., providing some updates on the war, but keeping his comments relatively brief at under half an hour.
As expected, the president claimed massive successes in the U.S. campaign, dubbed Operation Epic Fury, mentioning “victories like few people have ever seen before.”
Though he repeated recent claims that the war won’t last much longer, he put the timeframe at another two to three weeks and warned Iran would be hit “extremely hard” in the meantime.
