US President Donald Trump has delivered a blunt statement on the conflict in Iran, telling Fox News programme ‘Fox and Friends’, “I’m not looking to, you know, kill lots of people, but if we have to, we’ll have to.”
Citing the military operations in Venezuela at the start of this year, Trump says that in the aftermath of the operation, “Now we’re getting hundreds of millions of dollars every week, and we’re getting millions of barrels of oil every week … we paid for the cost of the war.
“Well, Iran, could be the same thing, but in a way better,” he adds, claiming that Tehran would have been able to possess a nuclear weapon if the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — which Trump tore up in 2018 — remained in force.
