The United States will be “out of Iran pretty quickly” and could return for “spot hits” if needed, President Donald Trump tells Reuters, hours before he is scheduled to make a primetime address to the nation.
Trump also says he will state in the speech that he is considering withdrawing the US from the NATO alliance.
Asked when the United States would consider the Iran war over, Trump says: “I can’t tell you exactly …. we’re going to be out pretty quickly.”
He says US action has ensured Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.
“They won’t have a nuclear weapon because they are incapable of that now, and then I’ll leave, and I’ll take everybody with me, and if we have to we’ll come back to do spot hits,” Trump says.
Of Iran’s enriched uranium, Trump says: “That’s so far underground, I don’t care about that.”
“We’ll always be watching it by satellite,” he adds.
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