Everyone should read this entire thread. It's great because it's just President Trump's own words and messaging without opinion or fake news fluff. Kudos!
https://x.com/StevenCheung47/status/2033540534191419679
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Just had a brief phone call with @potus this morning and asked him several questions about Iran. He noted when he answered that it was not a good time to chat because he was in the middle of a "very important meeting" about it - but said the following:
https://x.com/ElizLanders/status/2033525947362611538
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He started with an overall assessment saying "we're doing very well," reiterating comments about destroying Iran's military. He added: "They want to make a deal but they're not ready to make a deal in my opinion."
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On Kharg Island being hit: "Kharg Island is out of commission except for the pipes, which I left. I didn't want to hit the pipes because, you know, it's years of work to put them together."
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.@POTUS said he would "strike it again, yeah, I told them openly, I'll knock the hell out of it." He noted he purposefully left "100 yards" around "anything having to do with oil" there. "Didn't even come close," adding it takes a lot to rebuild infrastructure.
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He continued, "I left a lot of infrastructure in Tehran because if you did it, it's years of building…I could knock out the electric plants in one hour… but if I do that, that's years of rebuilding and it's trauma. So I'm trying to hold off on that kind of thing."
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He said the conflict is a "very small price to pay" after years of terror from the regime and "the oil prices will drop like a rock as soon as it's over." When I asked for a timeline on those dropping, he said, "Well as soon as the war is over… I don't believe it will be long."
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Final Q I got was about American troops on the ground in Iran and whether he sees that happening: "I don't wanna say that." When I asked if his thinking has changed on that issue, he said, "No it's not changed" -but he just didn't want to discuss strategy with a reporter.