On Monday, President Donald Trump told a CBS News reporter the war with Iran could end soon, and the Kremlin said he separately spoke by phone with Russian leader Vladimir Putin about the conflict.
“I think the war is very complete, pretty much,” Trump told CBS, according to Weijia Jiang.
After his remarks, Brent crude dropped sharply below $90 a barrel amid expectations the U.S.-Iran conflict might wind down. Earlier in the session, Brent jumped $26.81 to $119.50 a barrel, and WTI hit a session high of $119.48. Those were the highest intraday prices for both benchmarks since June 2022.
“They have no navy, no communications, they’ve got no Air Force,” Trump said, Jiang posted on X.
Trump said the United States is “very far” ahead of his earlier estimate that the war might take four to five weeks to conclude.
“Their missiles are down to a scatter; their drones are being destroyed all over the place, including in their drone production,” he said. “If you look, they have nothing left. There’s nothing left in a military sense.”
Trump told the outlet he had someone else, not Iran’s newly announced supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, to lead the country.
“I have no message for him. None, whatsoever,” Trump added.