President Donald Trump has claimed the Iran conflict could soon be over and insisted the US is “far ahead” of its “initial timeline”.
Trump said the US has “already won” the Iran war, but added it hasn’t “won enough”.
“We’re knocking them out. We know where they all are. We’re knocking them out very quickly. We’re ahead of our initial timeline by a lot,” he said, giving an update from Florida.
Speaking to House Republicans earlier on Monday, he also said Iran was going to attack all of the Middle East and Israel, claiming: “Israel would have been wiped out.”
It comes after Israel launched new wide-scale strikes against Iran as fighting intensified on Monday.
Nato shot down an Iranian ballistic missile in the alliance’s airspace, Turkey’s defence ministry confirmed. Air defences in the eastern Mediterranean were activated after a missile fired from Iran entered Turkey’s airspace.
The ministry said it would take all necessary steps to protect itself without hesitation. Iran denied firing a missile towards Turkey last week.
Iran has elected Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei as its new leader, more than a week after his father was killed in an airstrike.
