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Trump tells CBS ‘war is very complete, pretty much,’ could be over soon
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President Donald Trump speaks at the Shield of the Americas Summit, March 7, 2026, at Trump National Doral Miami in Doral, Florida. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
US President Donald Trump tells CBS he believes the war in Iran could be over soon.
“I think the war is very complete, pretty much. They have no navy, no communications, they’ve got no Air Force,” he tells the network’s Weijia Jian. He says the campaign is “very far” ahead of his previous estimate of a war lasting 4-5 weeks.
Trump says ships are currently passing through the Strait of Hormuz but adds that he is “thinking about taking it over.”
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