Iran says it’s ready for “long-term war of attrition” as Trump says it will end soon, “any time I want it to”

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned Wednesday that the country was prepared for a long “war of attrition,” as the Trump administration continued suggesting the conflict gripping the Middle East would soon be over.

Israel and the U.S. “must consider the possibility that they will be engaged in a long-term war of attrition that will destroy the entire American economy and the world economy, and will cause all of its military capabilities to be eroded to the point of destruction,” Ali Fadavi, an adviser to the Iranian IRGC’s Commander-in-Chief, told state television on Wednesday.

President Trump, meanwhile, told Axios in a phone interview Wednesday that the war would end “soon,” because there was “practically nothing left to target” in Iran.

“Any time I want it to end, it will end,” Mr. Trump said during the five-minute phone interview with Axios’ Barak Ravid.