WashingtonUS President Donald Trump vowed to achieve "ultimate victory" against the Persian Gulf nation, claiming that while they have won many battles against Iran, they have not won enough. The conflict between Iran and Israel is not going to end anytime soon.
We wish to permanently put an end to persistent danger: TrumpTrump stated, "We have won in many ways but haven't won enough," while speaking at the Republican Members' Issues Conference. We are more committed than ever to achieving the final triumph that will permanently put an end to this persistent threat.
He also said that the world will be a lot safer once the operation is over and that "it's going to get finished pretty quickly."
Trump said, "If we didn't go in, they would have come in after us...Within a week, they were going to attack us 100 percent." They were set. They had a lot more missiles than anyone thought, and they were going to attack us. They were going to attack Israel and all of the Middle East. If they had a nuclear weapon, they would have used it against Israel. This was going to be a big attack. They had all those missile sites and launchers, but we got rid of about 80% of them right now. They don't have many launchers left. What our military has done is amazing..."
Trump says that places where drones are made were attacked."The drones have been knocked out and we're hitting where they make the drones... Lot of work, lot of brilliant work but we're going to have a much safer world as soon as its finished and it's going to get finished pretty quickly," he continued, adding that the drone manufacturing facilities were targeted. Trump added that Iran is being "crushed" in an overwhelming demonstration of military might and technical prowess by Israel and its allies.
Trump says Iran's drone and missile capability is being utterly demolished"Iran's drone and missile capability is being utterly demolished. The Navy is gone. It's all lying at the bottom of the ocean. 46 ships, can you believe it? In fact I got a little upset with our people. When I said 'what quality of ship?' they said 'excellent, sir. Top of the line'. I said 'Why didn't we just capture the ships? We could use it. Why did we sink them?' They said it is more fun to sink them. They like them sinking better. They say it is safer to sink them, I guess it's probably true," he said.
His remarks come amid heightened tensions in West Asia as military operations and retaliatory actions involving Iran, the United States and Israel continue to escalate across the region, following the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader, 86-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in joint military strikes by the US and Israel on February 28.
The strikes also killed several senior leaders of the Islamic Republic. In retaliation, Tehran launched counter-strikes targeting American military bases in multiple Arab countries and Israeli assets across the region.
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