White House: We’ll need 4 to 6 weeks to meet war objectives; Iran’s navy ‘combat ineffective’

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the US expects it to take four to six weeks to achieve its objectives in Operation Epic Fury against Iran.

The White House has said its objectives are destroying Iran’s missile program, destroying Iran’s navy, making sure Iran can never obtain a nuclear weapon and ceasing Tehran’s support for armed proxies in the region.

Leavitt tells reporters outside the White House that the US has already sunk more than 30 Iranian navy vessels and that the Iranian navy has now been deemed “combat ineffective.”

“Just six days in, the retaliatory ballistic missile strikes from Iran are now down 90 percent,” she says.

“We’ve seen Hezbollah and the Houthis hardly putting up a fight over the course of the last six days.”

“As for the future of Iran… it’s in the best interest of the United States of America for Iran to no longer be led by a radical terrorist regime,” she continues.

“President Trump… wants to take an interest in pursuing who the next leader of the Iranian country is going to be, and… is discussing it,” Leavitt adds.