US won’t be in Iran “much longer”: Trump

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the Iran war is likely to end soon, in statements to the New York Post.

“We’re not going to be there too much longer. We’re obliterating the s–t out of them right now, it’s a total obliteration,” Trump said in a phone interview with the outlet.

“But we won’t have to be there much longer — but we have more work to do in terms of killing their offensive, whatever offensive capability they have left.”

“Well, I think it’ll automatically open, but my attitude is, I’ve obliterated the country. They have no strength left, and let the countries that are using the strait, let them go and open it… because I would imagine whoever’s controlling the oil will be very happy to open the strait,” Trump said on the Strait of Hormuz.

When asked about a report by the Wall Street Journal that he is willing to end the without reopening the strait, Trump told the New York Post:

“I don’t think about it, to be honest. My sole function was to make sure that they don’t have a nuclear weapon. They’re not going to have a nuclear weapon. When we leave the strait will automatically open.”

Overnight strikes on the city of Isfahan in Iran, which also contains a nuclear site, generated a massive explosion as shown by footage.

“I’d rather not say, but you’ll learn soon enough. They were rather large, weren’t they?” Trump said of the strike.

“It’ll come out, but it was just another one of their wonderful areas that we took care of”.

“That was a beauty. That was a beauty. That was stuff that we blew up. That was some explosion,” he continued.

“It was actually bigger than we thought, meaning they had a lot of stuff. Well, we’re taking away their nuclear capability, and we’ve achieved regime change. You know, we’re dealing right now with a totally different group of people, and they’re much more reasonable than previous, much more reasonable.

“And that is truly regime change.”