Trump says US strikes on Iran 'went a little too far' as Tehran leadership unclear

United States President Donald Trump said that seven months of military strikes against Iran went slightly further than intended, telling a rally in Bullhead City, Arizona, that Washington no longer has a clear counterpart in Tehran. According to Breaking The News, Trump said he probably went a little too far and apologized for the situation, adding that he does not know who the US is dealing with anymore.

Trump paired the admission with a warning about Iran's nuclear ambitions, saying that if the country had a nuclear weapon it would use it within 24 hours. He described Iran's leadership as crazy people.

The comments were made against the backdrop of continuing US military activity in the region. US Central Command said on Wednesday that its forces destroyed an Iran-affiliated vessel that had been conducting surveillance and attacking US Navy ships in the Gulf of Oman the previous week. CENTCOM said the crew was taken off the vessel before the strike and that repatriation efforts are underway.

The command also said that over the past seven months Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has continued to indiscriminately target thousands of civilian mariners transiting regional waters, as well as US Navy warships.

In the same rally, Trump said the US is extracting tremendous amounts of oil from the Strait of Hormuz and that volumes are returning to pre-war levels, repeating that the conflict will end very soon and that prices should fall. He also renewed his claim that Canada will end up as the 51st US state, and floated building a triumphal arch in Washington before leaving office.