Trump says Iran is “militarily defeated,” but U.S. operations may not be done

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President Trump said Iran is “militarily defeated” in an interview with Sinclair Broadcast Group’s Sharyl Attkisson.

“In their own minds, maybe they don’t know that, but I think they do,” Mr. Trump said in a clip from the interview released on Wednesday. “If we left today, it would take them 20 years to rebuild.”

Asked if combat operations are done, Mr. Trump said, “No, I didn’t say that.”

“They are defeated, but that doesn’t mean they’re done,” he said. “We could go in for two more weeks and do every single target. We have certain targets that we wanted, and we’ve done probably 70% of them, but we have other targets that we could conceivably hit.”