While reports point to the efforts of regional mediators to prevent a new war between Tehran and Washington, Donald Trump said on Monday morning, November 2, Iran time, that it may be necessary to strike a "hard blow" to the Salami republic.
At an election rally in the state of Iowa, the American president said: "The only reason I'm not done with Iran yet is that I want to tolerate them. I want to save these people's lives if I can... But at some point, we will have to give them a hard blow."
In this speech, Donald Trump repeated his previous statements about not prolonging the war with Iran and emphasized that America won in military and financial terms and this conflict will end very soon "one way or another".
He said: “I defended our country against the world's largest state sponsor of assassination. They have been attacking us on the ground since 1979. Hundreds of our youth were killed and many others fell victim to roadside bombs. "We didn't start this war, but we will finish it."