Trump says the Iran war will end ‘very soon’ – but it is not clear how

By Andrew Gawthorpe, Lecturer in History and International Studies, Leiden University

Donald Trump has said he thinks the war with Iran will be over soon. In a phone interview with CBS News on Monday, March 9, the US president said: “I think the war is very complete, pretty much … we’re very far ahead of schedule.”

This seemed to mark a shift in tone from earlier statements in which Trump had insisted the war would continue until Iran’s “unconditional surrender”. Given Tehran’s defiant tone and continuing…

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