Trump on Iran: Ground Troops & US Soldier Deaths

United States President Donald Trump is not ruling out a prolonged war with Iran and the deployment of troops on the ground as the conflict widens on multiple fronts and the death toll of American soldiers climbs to six.

The United States will continue to attack Iran for as long as it takes to prevent it from posing a threat, the American president argued Monday, taking advantage of the first minutes of a medal ceremony to comment on the conflict.

We will triumph easily. From the beginning, we planned for four to five weeks, but we have the capacity to go well beyond that. We willdeclared the president, despite being a defender of the policy of America first and long-time opponent of wars under his predecessors.

We’re already significantly ahead of our forecast, but however long it takes, it’s OK. We will do what it takesadded President Trump, who subsequently spoke about the future ballroom of the White House and who did not take questions from journalists.

The American president made these comments on the third day of the Israeli-American war against Iran, hours before the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) revised its toll upwards, now speaking of six American soldiers killed.

Over the past few days, the US president has released pre-recorded statements and videos on his platform Truth Socialin addition to increasing the number of telephone interviews with journalists from various media. However, it was the first time he had publicly discussed the conflict in front of the cameras since the operation began. Epic Fury.

In an interview given earlier to New York PostDonald Trump, who engaged the United States in these hostilities without the approval of Congress, has, moreover, refused to close the door to the deployment of soldiers on the ground.

I have no apprehensions about ground troops, like all presidents [américains] who say: “There will be no ground troops.” I don’t say that. I say instead: “We probably won’t need it, [ou il y en aura] if it’s necessary.”

During a morning press conference, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said for his part that there was no plan in this direction, without clearly specifying whether this position was likely to change.

We’re not going to go into detail about what we will or won’t do.he dropped, adding that it would be stupid. However, he declared that the United States would go as far as necessary.

During an interview with CNN, Donald Trump also hinted at an escalation.

We give them a nasty blowhe said, quoted by the journalist he spoke to. I think it’s going very well. It’s very powerful. We have the best army in the world and we use it.

We haven’t started hitting them hard yet. The big wave hasn’t even arrived yet. The big one [vague] is coming soonat-il having you.

The American Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, echoed his comments late in the afternoon, before taking stock with the Group of eightcomprised of senior Congressional officials from both parties.

The most violent strikes are yet to comehe told reporters from Capitol Hill.

Alongside Pete Hegseth, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine, also indicated that the United States was going to strengthen its military personnel in the Middle East.

Trump states his goals

During his speech at the White House, Donald Trump presented the Israeli-American operation as the best chance to eliminate threats from the Iranian regime.

This was our last best chance to carry out strikes – which we are doing now – and eliminate the intolerable threats posed by this sick and sinister regime. And they are indeed sick and sinister.

The goals of the offensive are clairshe said, after days of fluctuating explanations.

He listed four goals: destroy Iran’s ballistic capabilities, annihilate its navy, prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and ensure that the Iranian regime can no longer finance and lead terrorist armiesa reference to armed groups like Palestinian Hamas, Lebanese Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthis.

This weekend, Donald Trump notably declared that Tehran was on the verge of being able to reach the United States with long-range ballistic missiles, an assertion contradicted by American intelligence sources.

The tenant of the White House had never formally presented his arguments in favor of war, even during his State of the Union speech last Tuesday, during which the Iranian issue was only briefly discussed.

The American president, who has called on the Iranians more than once to overthrow the regime since Saturday, has not said a word about it this time.

During the Pentagon press conference, Pete Hegseth assured that the United States was not engaging in a new quagmire and that the objective was not regime change.

To the media and the left who cry “endless wars!”, [je vous dis :] stop. This is not Iraq. It’s not [une guerre] endless.

We don’t need to send 200,000 people and stay for 20 years. We have proven that we can accomplish goals that promote American interests without being stupid for it.he continued.

For years, Donald Trump has particularly objected to American wars whose objective is to bring down the regimes in place.

The United States took action preventivelyargue Rubio

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Speaking to reporters, the US Secretary of State suggested that the United States had acted on Israel’s decisions. He claimed that the United States had led an offensive preventive in response to the imminent threat posed by predictable Iranian retaliation to an Israeli attack.

We proactively acted defensively to prevent them from doing greater damage.

It was perfectly clear that if Iran was attacked – by the United States, Israel or anyone – it would retaliate, would retaliate against the United States. We would suffer heavier losses, and there might be even more deaths.he argued.

So the president made the very wise decision to strike first. We knew that Israeli action was imminent, that it would provoke an attack on our forces, and that if we did not get ahead of them before they launched their strikes, the consequences would be much worse.he declared.

The Iranian response is proof of this, he argued.

At the end of their briefing session with the head of American diplomacy, the leaders of the two parties, unsurprisingly, reacted in a diametrically opposed way.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, repeated arguments made by the Trump administration, while Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer expressed dissatisfaction with a meeting that raised more questions than it offered answers.

Democratic Representative Joaquin Castro is also shown in the niche, accusing Israel of having endangered U.S. forces by insisting on attacking Iran. This is unacceptable from the president and it is unacceptable from a country that calls itself our allyhe wrote on the social network

Both houses of Congress, which has the constitutional power to declare war, are expected to consider bipartisan resolutions this week that would limit President Trump’s military attack on Iran.

The vast majority of Republicans, however, support the military offensive launched by their leader.

Six dead on the American side

The CENTCOM revised upwards its toll of soldiers killed in the operation Epic Fury.

US forces recently recovered the remains of two missing service members from a facility that was hit during the first Iranian attacks in the regionindicated the CENTCOM in a press release. This brings to six the number of American soldiers killed since the start of the operation on Saturday.

Earlier in the day, he reported a fourth victim, specifying that she had succumbed to her injuries.

The CENTCOM also specified that the first three American soldiers whose deaths were announced on Sunday were probably [été] victims of friendly fire of Kuwait’s air defense.

This weekend, the US president warned that the toll would be expected to rise. Unfortunately, there are probably going to be morehe said Sunday after boasting of the first three American victims.

The strikes also killed the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, Ali Khamenei, aged almost 87, several members of his family as well as other regime figures.

In a short interview given Sunday to New York TimesDonald Trump claimed to have three very good choices to rule Iran.

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In an interview with ABC News, however, he indicated that potential leaders identified by the United States were killed in the initial attack. The attack was so effective that it eliminated most of the candidateshe said, quoted by the network. It won’t be anyone we were thinking of, because they’re all dead. The second and third place candidates are dead.

The Iranian Red Crescent has also announced a death toll of 555 since Saturday. Tehran claimed that a bombing killed 168 people in a school in the south of the country on Saturday, a toll that could not be independently verified.

Invokingsignificant security risksthe State Department has also urged Americans present in the Middle East to leave a dozen countries and territories: Iran, Israel, Gaza, West Bank, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.