Trump demanded "total victory" over Iran; "This issue should have been resolved a long time ago."
On Wednesday, November 11, Donald Trump, the president of the United States, announced that the United States was seeking "total victory" in the war with Iran and said that it would take "25 years" to restore what was destroyed by the American attacks in Iran.
"This issue should have been resolved a long time ago," he said at a Veterans Day ceremony in Arlington, Virginia. We want to make sure we get a total victory; Not a 93 percent victory, but a complete victory."
The American president added: "It will take them 25 years to rebuild what we destroyed, and I hope we don't have to destroy any more parts of that country."
Trump also said that the Islamic Republic has been at war against the US since 1979 (the year of the 1957 revolution) and it was not the US that started the war with Tehran. These statements are made while the President of the United States has said in recent days that he prefers to continue the naval blockade and economic pressure on the Salami Republic instead of renewing large-scale military attacks against Iran.
He announced on Monday that Arab countries bordering the Persian Gulf also prefer the continuation of these pressures over new military attacks.
On Tuesday, on the sidelines of the Group of Seven Foreign Ministers meeting in Paris, Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, defined the economic pressure on Iran as "extraordinary" and said that the US economic sanctions and naval blockade are so effective that US President Donald Trump does not need to carry out a large-scale military operation against Iran in the current situation.
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