Iran-US war latest: US embassy in Riyadh hit as Trump warns ‘you’ll be finding out very soon’ on future strikes
Donald Trump told reporters on Monday night that “you will be finding out very soon” what will happen next in Iran, just hours after a pair of drones struck the U.S. embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Earlier, Trump warned Tehran that the biggest strikes are yet to come as the US and Israel traded blows with Iran for a third day.
The US president said he expected the fighting to go on for around four weeks.
“We haven’t even started hitting them hard,” he bragged in comments to CNN on Monday. “The big wave hasn’t even happened. The big one is coming soon.”
In his first public comments since attacking Iran on Saturday, the president told reporters at the White House that the US was prepared to fight on for “far longer” than planned if necessary to decisively stop the regime from building missiles and getting a nuclear weapon. He said earlier it was the “last, best chance” to strike Tehran.
The president also refused to rule out putting boots on the ground as the Pentagon insisted the US was not veering into another “endless war” in the desert.
Trump told the New York Post: “I don’t have the yips with respect to boots on the ground — like every president says, ‘There will be no boots on the ground.’ I don’t say it … I say ‘probably don’t need them,’ [or] ‘if they were necessary.’”
