Name: Trump calls Iran war a “Short-term excursion” as massive explosions rock Tehran
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That is the US President Donald Trump speaking live in Miami, Florida, on the 10th day of the US Israel war in Iran, a conflict that's already spread to large parts of the Middle east, threatening global fuel supplies with major consequences, of course.

Let's speak to Mike Hannah at the White House.

Mike, it was a long, rambling speech on a multitude of subjects which included Iran to a degree.

Well, very limited reference to the war that began and mostly it was domestic.

And the question that one asks is why would he make the speech at this time to members House members of the Republicans at his golf club in Florida.

He is following the exact outline that he did in his state of Nation address, which was just a few last month.

Once again, the same taglines he had in his State of the Union address, visceral attack on Democrats trying to change the voting system, do away with mail in IDs, not have women playing in men's sports.

All these taglines that he used assiduously in his State of the Union address.

So we're not quite sure exactly why he decided to hold this event on this particular time.

The fact that the war is underway would perhaps have created more attention in his speech to that.

Although he is expected to give a news conference or a speech shortly after this.

The one reference he did make to the war on Iran is a short term excursion.

That was his exact phrase to describe that war on Iran, a short term excursion.

He also repeated his claim that his own intelligence services denied that if it wasn't for that attack in June last year on Iran's nuclear facilities, they were 10 days away, he said, from carrying out nuclear strikes against Israel and others.

The intelligence services, his own had put that time frame as completely incorrect.

But once again, he did play around a little bit with that, saying that if that strike hadn't taken place in June last year, there would have been a nuclear attack within 10 days of that attack.

And going on to justify why he decided to go to war alongside Israel because he has been saying in recent days members of his administration saying that Iran continued to develop nuclear weapons after, in his words, all their nuclear facilities were completely destroyed in those attacks in June.

All right, Mike, we're going to speak to you a little bit later as well.

But for time being, thanks a lot, Mike Hannah there in Washington, D.C.

another thing Donald Trump said was that the Iran operation is one of the most complex in history, one of the most complex operations.

And indeed, as Trump started speaking, huge explosions were heard in Tehran.

We can say that this is by far one of the most heavily intense nights in Tehran in terms of air bombardment.

Over the last couple of hours, there have been a series of explosions.

Huge explosions that rocked even the windows of our office here a little bit.

And we have also news that there are also equally large explosions in Karaj, north of Tehran.

As we always say, we don't have the details, we don't have the information from the government.

And the government keeps that information until they decide how to release it and how much of it to release.

And also, I don't know if any cameras here in the office have been able to capture both the explosions because we don't see them directly from our windows.

And also the air defense systems that have been very active tonight around Tehran.

That's not a scene we see every night, but

we have seen it tonight flashing in the air, particularly in the east of Tehran over the day.

There has been very intense bombardment in Isfahan that targeted the governor's office there and also an ancient Orwayil palace that is registered as a UNESCO Heritage site.

News of blasts in Tabriz and in Karaj and in Isfahan.

Of course, Isfahan has, as I said again, I return to Isfahan because the strikes have been, according to some reports, close to some of the nuclear sites there.

The IAEA is saying that most of the stocks of uranium in depleted uranium in Iran are stored in Esfahan, underground there.

We don't have anything, any way to verify that.

So Tehran is at the center of the bombardment today, east, west, south, during the day and overnight just a couple of hours ago.

But on the other hand, we have defiance continuing on the part of the of the army and the Revolutionary Guard.

They have launched the 33rd wave of the True Promise number four operation.

And they have said in a statement that starting from now, they will not launch any missile that is lighter than 1,000kg.

Some of those missiles have been launched against Israel, according to the information we have from the Revolutionary Guard.

And they are talking about heavier and heavier missiles being launched on targets across the region.

So, I mean, even though there is this intensification of bombardment on Iran, there is also equally similar intensification of the reaction from Iran towards the Israeli and American targets in the region.