Trump says Iran war will end in 'very near future'
President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday that the United States was not ready to leave the military operation in Iran yet, but that "we'll be leaving in pretty much the very near future."
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- Published Date: 09:35 | 17 March 2026
- Modified Date: 09:39 | 17 March 2026
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the Iran war would be ending in the "very near future," but insisted "we're not ready to leave yet."
"Look, if we left right now, it would take 10 years for them to rebuild," Trump said at a meeting with Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin at the White House. "We'll be leaving in pretty much the very near future."
Claiming that the US "decimated" Iran "from every standpoint," he said, "Everything is gone. Their leaders are gone."
On the Israeli killing of Ali Larijani, the head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, in an airstrike near Tehran, Trump confirmed that he was "killed yesterday." He said Larijani was "responsible for the killing of 32,000 people" at protests in Iran.
He added that "Iran is just a military operation to me … We could take out their electric capacity in one hour."
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