Trump, Iran and news conference
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U.S. stock market indexes rose earlier in the day after an initial report that President Donald Trump said he believed the Iran war was largely finished.
The US president says he is "more determined than ever to achieve ultimate victory", hours after telling CBS News the war is "very complete, pretty much".
The president insists conflict with Iran will be brief, but world leaders are preparing for severe economic blowback.
Trump told NBC News that Iran's leaders made a "big mistake" by elevating Khamenei, but predicted the war could be over before the timeline of four to five weeks he had earlier laid out. "I think the war is very complete, pretty much," he told CBS News.
The president had a lot to say, and a lot of it didn’t make sense. Here’s the latest on Day 10 of the Iran War.
President Trump said military victory against Iran was at hand, starting a Monday press conference by telling reporters, “We've wiped every single force in Iran out very completely.” “We're achieving major strides toward completing our military objective,
Mr. Trump expressed displeasure at the decision by Iran to name Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as supreme leader. Ayatollah Khamenei was killed on the first day of the war, but Mr. Trump did not reply directly to a question about whether his son might meet the same fate.
President Donald Trump gave conflicting signs today in a series of remarks about the Iran war strategy. In an interview, he said the war is nearly over but later told House Republicans that “we haven’t won enough.
U.S. President Donald Trump had a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the war in Iran and other issues
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President Trump will hold a press conference Monday evening, after addressing the House Republican caucus in Miami. It follows a weekend of developments in the war against Iran. Oil prices surged overnight Monday,