President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the U.S. is getting “very close” to finishing its objectives in Iran but warned that the next two weeks will involve intense military activity.
“We are on track to complete all of America’s military objectives shortly, very shortly,” the president said in his first primetime address since the war in Iran began. “We’re going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks.”
The president also called on countries who get their oil through the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has effectively blockaded, to get involved in ensuring it reopens.
“The United States imports almost no oil through the Hormuz Strait and won’t be taking any in the future. We don’t need it. We haven’t needed it, and we don’t need it,” Trump said. “We will be helpful, but they should take the lead in protecting the oil that they so desperately depend on.”
