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Trump: US striking Iran ‘very hard’ to honor slain American servicemembers
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS President Donald Trump says the latest military strikes on Iran are being carried out in honor of US servicemembers killed in recent days.
“We hit them very hard again tonight, and we did that in honor of the, probably three, it’s probably three great patriots,” Trump tells reporters as he returns to Washington following the World Cup final.
Trump says “we feel very badly,” when asked about the military fatalities, adding that those who died were fighting so that “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.”
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