Trump to Politico: “Open to work with elements of the regime that will survive”

President of the United States Donald Trump was interviewed by Politico today (Tuesday) and said regarding the war with Iran: “It is open to go with elements of the regime that will survive.” When Trump was asked if it was too late for him to consider working with someone in a new administration, he replied: “No, not too late. 49 (officials) were killed, don’t forget. New ones are emerging. A lot of people want the job. Some of them will be very good.”

Trump added in the interview: “Iran is losing ammunition and essential military capabilities. They are running out of launchers.” The president emphasized that the US has an unlimited supply of ammunition. “The defense companies are in a fast race to build the things we need,” he claimed. “They are under emergency orders.”

Regarding the length of the war, Trump was not clear and said that it could last four or five weeks, or end in a few more days. He justified the war by claiming that Iran was on the verge of obtaining nuclear weapons or the ability to attack the United States.

Afterwards, the US president responded in a statement to the media on the claim of his foreign minister Marco Rubio, according to which Israel planned to attack Iran and the US joined for fear that its forces would be harmed: “Israel did not bend my hand to attack Iran. Maybe I was the one who bent their hand.”

He later said about a new leader for Iran: “Pahlavi (the Shah’s crown prince) seems like a nice guy to me, but it seems to me that someone who is currently inside Iran is more suitable to be the next leader of Iran. There are more moderate people there.”

In the same statement, he also said that he was severing commercial ties with Spain because it prohibited the US from using its bases.