Donald Trump regularly changes his views and objectives on the Iran war.Image: keystone
The American president corrects himself and announces his new goal in the Iran war at a press conference.
03/10/2026, 04:5003/10/2026, 04:50
The American president is not yet war-weary. When Donald Trump was asked at a press conference on Monday whether the Iran war would end this week, his answer was:
Trump contradicted himself, not for the first time since the beginning of the military conflict in the Middle East. A few hours before the start of the press conference in Miami, he said in an interview with the television station CBS that the war was “as good as over.”
The raw materials and financial markets immediately reacted positively to this statement. The price of oil fell from over $116 per barrel to well below $90.
In his statements in Miami, however, Trump no longer repeated this optimistic view of the war word for word. He also said at his press conference that the war would be over “soon”:
“We are close to completion.”
And he refrained from calling for Iran’s unconditional surrender, as he had done last Friday.
But the American president also said that he was not yet satisfied with the military successes that had already been achieved, however “huge” they may be. “We want to go one step further,” announced Trump.
He explicitly explained to the assembled media professionals that his goal was to neutralize the danger that the regime in Tehran had posed to date. Iran must no longer have the capacity to “develop weapons that could be used against the USA, Israel and our allies,” said Trump.
“Disappointed” with new revolutionary leader
The American president did not want to reveal how far America and Israel are from this goal. He also avoided giving a clear answer to the question of who he would like to see at the head of the country. He preferred an “internal” candidate, said Trump, who had previously boasted that almost the entire Iranian leadership had been killed during the war.
Trump did not want to say publicly whether this fate also threatened the new revolutionary leader Mojtaba Khamenei. However, he was once again “disappointed” that the choice fell on the son of the slain religious leader Ali Khamenei. The country’s problems would not be reduced with the new man at the helm, he said. (aargauerzeitung.ch)