President Donald Trump is holding firm on Iran, according to comments he made during an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Thursday while visiting China.The president boasted of the United States’s military success in the war and suggested a bleak outlook for the future of the Middle Eastern country. And when discussing the future of the conflict, Trump appeared to offer Iran an ultimatum.“They’re finished,” Trump told Hannity regarding Iran. “Now they can make a deal or they get annihilated. I don’t want to do that.”
The president mentioned how Operation Epic Fury against Iran had allegedly decimated Iran’s military, which, in turn, would make it difficult for them to challenge the U.S. He suggested that it was only a matter of time before Iran was ultimately defeated.
“They have no navy,” Trump said. “They have no air force. It, it’s all, it’s, it’s gone. It’s just a question of time. If we want, we stopped. Could have gone for another few weeks it would have been over. Uh, I did that at the request of a lot of leaders that are friendly with them. Uh, it’s not going to matter for them.”
As the interview touched on a variety of topics, Trump later returned to the topic of Iran and their allegedly obliterated military. He specifically mentioned Iran’s naval fleet, its air force, and anti-aircraft weapons.
