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10 Mar 2026, 04:42

From the machine translation Q&A section of Donald Trump's press conference

Question:
Thank you, Mr. President. Regarding Iran, you described this as a "limited action" and said it would be over soon. Do you mean it will be over this week? Or in a few days?
Trump:
No. But I think it will be soon. Very soon. Everything they had is gone, including their leadership. In fact, two levels of leadership have been eliminated, and as it turns out, even more than that. But two levels of leadership are gone. Most people have never even heard the names of the leaders being discussed. So it is clear that this operation has been very powerful and very effective.

Question:
You said the war, in your own words, is "very complete," but your Secretary of Defense says this is just the beginning. So which one is correct? And how long should Americans prepare for this war to continue?
Trump:
Well, I think both can be said. It is the beginning; the beginning of building a new country. But they certainly no longer have a navy. They have no air force. They have no air defense. Everything has been blown up. They have no radar. They have no communications, and they have no leadership. Everything is gone. So you can look at that sentence from this angle. We can call this a tremendous success right now, as we leave here; or we can move forward, and we will. But the main danger of that war ended three days ago. We took them down in the first two days.

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Question:
You previously said that we have already won in many ways, but we have not won enough. What does "enough" mean to you? What is your basis for that?
Trump:
That they do not start a program to develop nuclear weapons the day after this. That they look at that man and a few other members of the government and say, "Okay, we are not doing this anymore." They were not willing to say that. And when Steve called and told me this, I said, "Okay, then we will take the hard road." But I think the hard road is probably the easy road. When I can practically see that they no longer have any capacity for a long time to develop weapons that could be used against the United States, Israel, or any of our allies. We have great allies in the Middle East, great countries that are our allies and had not gotten involved until they were targeted. One day a report must be made about why he did this? Why did they do this? But if I had not hit them earlier, they were going to attack these countries; they were going to hit our allies first. I believe this based on information and clues that they intended to take over the Middle East. They were looking to seize the Middle East. Now, if the "Midnight Hammer" operation had not been carried out, this was certain, because they would have reached nuclear weapons within weeks. But that operation was carried out and dealt a heavy blow to them. However, look at the number of missiles they were able to buy and build just in the last six months. And those missiles were aimed at various countries. When you see over a thousand missiles fired at a country like the UAE, it is clear that they were looking to dominate the Middle East. We got there first. They got lucky. I tell you, the Middle East and those countries, which are very wealthy countries, are very lucky that I was President, not someone else.

Question:
Is there a point of disagreement between you and your Vice President regarding the U.S. action in Iran?
Trump:
I don't think so, no. We are very well coordinated on this issue. I can say he philosophically differed a bit from me. I think he may have had less enthusiasm for entering this topic than I did; but he was also very eager. But I felt this was something we had to do. I did not feel we had another choice. If we did not do this, they would have done it to us. Based on the discussions that Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and Marco and Pete and everyone involved had, I felt they were ready to hit us before we hit them, and if they had attacked us first, it would have been very bad.

Question:
You said you are considering taking control of the Strait of Hormuz. Is there a timeline for that?
Trump:
Yes, I want to keep it open. I want the situation to be good. You know, this issue is not as important to us as it is to China. We are actually helping China and other countries here because they get a large part of their energy from this strait. But look, we have a good relationship with China. It is an honor for me to do this.

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