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Trump Claims US Will Win War With Iran 'Very Soon
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In Short: Trump's repeated claims of imminent victory have drawn skepticism from the public and media alike. Jim LaPorta of CBS News tweeted, 'It’s incredibly difficult to follow the president when he swings from we’ve 'won the war with Iran' to 'we’re going to win the war with Iran.
US President Donald Trump declared on Monday that the United States would win its war with Iran 'very soon', according to News.Az. This statement comes amid ongoing conflict that began in February 2026.
The war with Iran has been marked by mixed messaging from the Trump administration. On Friday, Trump downplayed the conflict, calling it 'small potatoes,' while Vice President JD Vance suggested at a White House briefing that the conflict had cooled, stating, 'sometimes things happen,' as per Al Jazeera.
The conflict has seen recent exchanges between the US and Iran, including a US strike near Iran's oil infrastructure on Kharg Island, which handles about 90 percent of Iran's oil exports.
Talks related to Iran's nuclear program have stalled since a 60-day negotiating window expired in mid-August without a deal.
The US and Iran have been engaged in a series of attacks and counterattacks, with Iran maintaining that it is developing a nuclear power program only and not building a nuclear weapon.
Trump's repeated claims of imminent victory have drawn skepticism from the public and media alike. Jim LaPorta of CBS News tweeted, 'It’s incredibly difficult to follow the president when he swings from we’ve 'won the war with Iran' to 'we’re going to win the war with Iran.
What this adds
The war has continued for over six months, despite Trump's repeated claims of imminent victory.
Background
In Sunday's state election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) received its lowest result ever since World War II, with just 5% of the vote, according to exit polls by public broadcaster ARD.
Four Republican senators defected from President Donald Trump's stance on the Iran war, voting with Democrats to limit his war powers as the conflict approaches the eight-month mark.
What's confirmed
- US President Donald Trump declared on Monday that the United States would win its war with Iran 'very soon', according to News.Az. This statement comes amid ongoing conflict that began in February 2026.
- The war with Iran has been marked by mixed messaging from the Trump administration. On Friday, Trump downplayed the conflict, calling it 'small potatoes,' while Vice President JD Vance suggested at a White House briefing that the conflict had cooled, stating, 'sometimes things happen,' as per Al Jazeera.
- The conflict has seen recent exchanges between the US and Iran, including a US strike near Iran's oil infrastructure on Kharg Island, which handles about 90 percent of Iran's oil exports.
- Talks related to Iran's nuclear program have stalled since a 60-day negotiating window expired in mid-August without a deal.
- The US and Iran have been engaged in a series of attacks and counterattacks, with Iran maintaining that it is developing a nuclear power program only and not building a nuclear weapon.
- Trump's repeated claims of imminent victory have drawn skepticism from the public and media alike. Jim LaPorta of CBS News tweeted, 'It’s incredibly difficult to follow the president when he swings from we’ve 'won the war with Iran' to 'we’re going to win the war with Iran.
What's still developing
- And given we’ve been here before with Trump claiming victory in a war he started alongside Israel, only for the fighting to continue, X/Twitter users were unconvinced by the convicted felon’s latest assertion: “We’re 211 days into a war he said would be over in two weeks. He’s already claimed we won dozens of times, and now he’s saying we’ll win ‘very soon’ again. How do people believe this bulls***,” asked political commentator Jamie Bonkiewicz: Jim LaPorta, of CBS News, tweeted: “It’s incredibly difficult to follow the president when he swings from we’ve 'won the war with Iran' to 'we’re going to win the war with Iran'”: And HuffPost White House correspondent S.V.
- Join the news democracy Where your votes decide the Top 100 Related video: Trump pulls golfer Adam Scott into awkward tug-of-war handshake Despite claiming as far back as March that his war with Iran has already been “won”, US president Donald Trump is now telling the press America is “going to win this war very soon”.
- “We're going to win, as far as I'm concerned, it's going to be one way or the other,” Trump said.
- The discussions were expected to focus on an amended version of a seven-day proposal presented by Iran on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
- It urged finance minister John Healey to ease business rates costs in the October 28 budget as Iran war pressures build.
- It's hard to take anything Trump says about Iran seriously.
- Trump made the threat against Pickaxe Mountain as he was speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Friday, saying the US knows “everybody that’s moving at Pickaxe” and across Iran.
- At a White House briefing this week, Vance said of the conflict with Iran that he “wouldn’t call it a war” and claimed there was “no active shooting right now”.
- After the June 2025 attacks, Trump said the three sites had been “completely and totally obliterated”.
- United States President Donald Trump says Washington may strike Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain “very soon”, in just the latest in a series of threats he has made against the heavily fortified underground site located next to the bombed-out Natanz enrichment complex.
- Iran says it is not undertaking any work at the Natanz nuclear site.