President Donald Trump stated in a submit to social media that the U.S. struck “many lengthy wanted targets” in Iran on Sunday.
“Huge day in Iran. Many lengthy wanted targets have been taken out and destroyed by our GREAT MILITARY, the best and most deadly within the World,” Trump wrote.
Earlier on Sunday, Trump reportedly informed the Monetary Instances that the U.S. has about “3,000 targets left — we have bombed 13,000 targets.”
President Donald Trump talks to members of the media aboard Air Pressure One en path to Joint Base Andrews on March 29, 2026.
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Trump additionally prompt to the FT that he’s contemplating a floor operation in Iran, presumably aimed toward Iran’s Kharg Island oil export terminal within the northern Persian Gulf. Trump stated U.S. forces might “very simply” take the island.
“Perhaps we take Kharg Island, possibly we do not. We’ve got numerous choices,” Trump informed the FT, noting that this could “imply we needed to be there for some time.”
“To be sincere with you, my favorite factor is to take the oil in Iran however some silly folks again within the U.S. say: ‘Why are you doing that?’ However they’re silly folks,” Trump informed the FT.
The administration is reportedly contemplating a floor operation towards Iran within the Persian Gulf to safeguard the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the place industrial transport has been topic to Iranian harassment and tolls because the U.S. and Israel launched the battle on Feb. 28.
Trump informed reporters on Air Pressure One on Sunday that Iran had given permission for 10 oil tankers to move by the Strait, and that one other 20 extra would achieve this quickly.
Talking to the FT, Trump claimed that Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf was “the one who approved the ships” to move by safely.
Trump additionally once more speculated concerning the standing of Iran’s newly-appointed Supreme Chief Mojtaba Khamenei, who succeeded his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after the latter was killed by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Tehran on Feb. 28.
“The son is both lifeless or in extraordinarily unhealthy form,” Trump stated. “We have not heard from him in any respect. He is gone.”
Mojtaba Khamanei’s absence from the general public eye has fueled hypothesis he was badly injured within the American-Israeli assaults, although Tehran has insisted he’s alive and secure.
-ABC Information’ Meg Mistry and Emily Chang
