Top updates: Trump says US’ core objectives in Iran ‘nearing completion’
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United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that the US military’s core strategic objectives in Iran are nearing completion.
“We’re going to finish the job, and we’re going to finish it very fast,” Trump said in a televised address, adding that the US will hit Iran “very hard” in the next two to three weeks.
Here are more top updates from the conflict in West Asia:
- Trump described the spike in domestic gasoline prices in the US as a “short-term increase” caused by Iran “launching deranged terror attacks against commercial oil tankers in neighbouring countries that have nothing to do with the conflict”. The Strait of Hormuz will open up naturally because Iran would want to sell oil, he said.
- Trump repeated his calls for other countries to reclaim access to the strait, which has been effectively blocked by Tehran since the conflict started.
- The US president said that Washington will not allow its allies in West Asia such as Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates get hurt.
- Trump claimed that the Iranian Navy was “gone” and that the country’s overall military capabilities had diminished. “Their ability to launch missiles and drones is dramatically curtailed, and their weapons factories and rocket launchers are being blown to pieces – very...