President still seeks long-term solution ensuring Iran’s nuclear program is defanged
President Donald Trump said Monday he believes the war in Iran is militarily effectively over, telling reporters: “Iran militarily is effectively over.”
“We’re just keeping it the status quo,” Trump said.
The remarks came during a surprise visit to the White House briefing room after Trump met earlier in the day with Qatar’s prime minister, according to the Associated Press.
Trump added that Iran has been “decapitated.”
He said, though, that he is still looking to make sure there is a long-term solution to ensuring that Iran’s nuclear program is defanged.
Taken together, the remarks describe a conflict that, in the president’s telling, is militarily concluded and held at its current posture, with the long-term nuclear question he identified still unresolved.