US President Donald Trump spoke to the media at the White House on Saturday about his plans for Iran, saying he would announce updates “by the end of the day.”
“They have no navy, they have no air force, they have no leaders, they have no nothing,” said Trump.
“Iran can’t blackmail us,” he added, after signing an executive order on access to medical research and treatment based on psychedelic drugs.
We have very good conversations going on,” Trump said. “They got a little cute, as they have been doing for 47 years.”
“Nobody ever took them on,” continued Trump. “We took them on.”
“It is regime change,” added Trump, referring to the targeted killing of senior Iranian officials and their replacements. “You call that ‘enforced regime change.'”
“A lot of your fellow soldiers have been killed by Iran,” Trump told the US veterans standing behind him as part of the executive order signing, one of whom acknowledged that Iran had manufactured many of the roadside bombs that had been used to kill US soldiers in Iraq.
Trump said on Friday that he may end the ceasefire with Iran unless a long-term deal to end the war is agreed by Wednesday.
“Maybe I won’t extend it, but the blockade [on Iranian ports] is going to remain,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on his way back to Washington from Phoenix, Arizona. “So you have a blockade, and unfortunately, we have to start dropping bombs again.”
Trump added that there had been some “pretty good news” regarding Iran, but he declined to elaborate.
“We had some pretty good news 20 minutes ago, but it seems to be going very well in the Middle East with Iran,” said Trump.
“You’ll hear about. I just think it’s something that should happen. It’s something that only makes sense to happen. And I think it will. We’ll see what happens, but I think it will,” Trump said when asked what the good news was.