Trump predicts Iran war will end soon in Veterans Day address
Speaking to veterans and their families at Arlington National Cemetery on 11 November, President Donald Trump predicted the conflict would end soon.
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President Donald Trump told veterans and their families at Arlington National Cemetery on 11 November that the war with Iran would end “soon.” He said the United States had won but that the question was when to end the conflict, insisting on “total victory.”
Trump acknowledged American losses, saying 18 lives had been lost. He predicted that the world would be safer and more peaceful when the conflict ended.
The case Trump made for the war
Trump described the conflict as lasting roughly seven months, with only a few weeks of active fighting. Defending the war, he argued that Iran had been waging war on the US since 1979 and invoked the 1983 Iran-backed bombing of the US Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Fox News said.
On 10 November, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said military strikes were unnecessary if economic means and pressure achieved the same objective. He rejected the idea that the countries were at a stalemate, arguing that sanctions, the naval blockade and other measures were steadily weakening Iran economically. Administration officials have pointed to economic and diplomatic solutions.
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