President Trump, who called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” said on Saturday that Iran will be “hit very hard.”
The president also indicated he has no timetable for the war, telling reporters “I never project that, whatever it takes.”
US wants to pick Iranian president
Trump says he wants to “pick a president” for Iran that will not be “leading the country into war”, because the US does not want to “come back every five years”
On what unconditional surrender looks like, Trump says this is when Iran “can’t fight any longer”, before adding “if they surrender or if there is nobody around to surrender but they are rendered useless in terms of military”
On oil prices, the US president says he “figured oil prices would go up, which they will” but adds that “they will also come down; they’ll come down very fast”
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Saturday that its temporary leadership council has approved the suspension of attacks against neighbouring countries unless an attack on Iran came from those countries