the war<\/a>, Iranian armed forces responded \u200cby firing at U.S. bases in neighbouring Arab countries and warning that they could strike non-military buildings there used by U.S. personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\nTrump has threatened in recent days to widen targets to Iran’s energy plants and bridges, send ground forces to seize its oil hub of Kharg Island, and bomb a deep-underground nuclear-linked site known as Pickaxe Mountain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Friday, he said he had not yet made a decision on new major strikes, however.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We are talking to them,” Trump told reporters at \u200bthe White House. “I think they’re being serious. I think … they are being by far the most serious that we’ve seen them, but that doesn’t mean we get there.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asked what the exit \u200bstrategy was for the Iran war, Trump said, “There’s a military exit where we just keep going just the way we are, and we can even \u2060make it a heavier dose, and it’s knocking out everything they have. Or there’s a smarter strategy that you make a deal.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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