Trump claims Iran running out of ammo but predicts it will ‘keep lobbing missiles for a while’

US President Donald Trump claims that Iran is running out of ammunition after over three days of war with the US.

Nonetheless, Trump tells Politico in a phone interview that Iran is still expected “keep lobbing missiles for a while.”

Trump’s claim about the Iranian missile stockpile comes after the Wall Street Journal reported that the US is the one running out of interceptors— something the president has fiercely denied.

“We have unlimited of the middle- and upper middle- ammunition and things. We save it and we build it,” he tells Politico.

“The defense companies are on a rapid tear to build the various things we need,” he adds to the US outlet. “They’re under emergency orders. We’re making it fast. But we have unlimited,”

Trump justifies the war by saying that Iran was on the verge of obtaining a nuclear weapon or of being capable of attacking the US.

After US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites last year, Trump claimed to have completely destroyed Iran’s nuclear program. Intelligence assessments have separately refuted Trump’s claim that Iran is close to being able to produce a missile that can reach the US and say that Tehran is actually more than a decade away from that capacity.

Trump says he’s open to speaking with a reconfigured Iranian government if one emerges after much of its leadership was taken out in the opening strikes of the war.

“Forty-nine [senior Iranian leaders] were killed, don’t forget, so that goes pretty deep, right? New ones are emerging. A lot of people want the job. Some of them would be very good,” he says.