Trump: “We tore Iran to smithereens”

This speech in South Dakota was just the beginning of a holiday marathon – Trump is then planning to hold a rally on the National Mall in Washington, which will be accompanied by a grandiose holiday fireworks display.

The day before, Trump said in an interview with CNBC that, in his opinion, during the negotiations Iran “approximately agreed to everything that we need.” Speaking about the military confrontation with Tehran, Trump again said that the United States has “completely defeated” Iran militarily. “They have a few missiles left, but we can erase them too,” the American president said.

In an interview with Joe Kernen in the Oval Office, Trump defended his decision to go to war with Iran, calling it not a war “per se” but the “denuclearization of Iran.” “They cannot be allowed to have nuclear weapons,” he said.

Trump insisted that the US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz had not been broken during the war: “Not a single ship has gone into Iran,” he said, calling the blockade a “steel wall.” CNBC notes that, according to Lloyd’s List, the blockade was violated several times by ships of the so-called Iranian “shadow fleet.”

The US President said that as part of a possible peace agreement, Iran will purchase American agricultural goods – corn, wheat and soybeans. CNBC recalls that Tehran has already denied this statement: the head of the Central Bank of Iran, Abdolnasser Hemmati, stated that Iran has no obligation to purchase agricultural raw materials from the United States.