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President Donald Trump on Monday suggested that the war with Iran could be nearing its end, declaring that American and Israeli forces had already crippled much of Iran’s military infrastructure—even as he simultaneously vowed that the United States would press forward until the country’s leadership was decisively defeated.

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00:00Our country is doing really well, I mean, at a level that nobody thought.
00:04We took a little excursion because we felt we had to do that to get rid of some evil.
00:10And I think you'll see it's going to be a short-term excursion.
00:13How good is our military, right?
00:16Last week you talked about this being the beginnings of an air campaign that could last three to eight weeks.
00:22Can you give us your assessment on where we are now?
00:24Where we are is in a very strong place, giving the President of the United States maximum options.
00:30And from the beginning, from this podium, we haven't stated how long it will take.
00:34Our will is endless.
00:35Ultimately, the President gets to determine the end state of those objectives, right?
00:41But what he's said continually, and I want the American people to understand, is this is not endless.
00:47It's not protracted.
00:48We're not allowing mission creep.
00:50The President has set a very specific mission to accomplish.
00:54And our job is to unrelentingly deliver that.
00:57Now, he gets to control the throttle.
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