Iran ‘at the end of the line,’ says Trump, vowing to ‘finish the job’

President says Iran reeling from American and Israeli strikes but adds that the US cannot exit the conflict prematurely.

By David Rosenberg, World Israel News

Iran is reeling from American and Israeli strikes, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, while warning against prematurely ending the conflict with the Islamic Republic.

Trump rallied supporters in Hebron, Kentucky, located in the staunchly Republican Boone County, which the president won by margins of more than two-to-one in all three of his presidential elections.

During the event, Trump touted the accomplishments of Operation Epic Fury, echoing comments he made outside the White House earlier on Wednesday.

“Operation Epic Fury: Is that a great name? Well, it’s only good if you win. You know, you can only do it if you win – and we’ve won. Let me say: we’ve won. You never like to say it too early, but we won the bet in the first hour. It was over,” Trump said.

The Iranians, he continued, “don’t know what the hell hit them. They don’t know. They got hit by the American military – they don’t know. They say, ‘What the hell is happening?’ They didn’t expect anything like this.”

Despite the heavy damage inflicted on the Iranian regime, Trump emphasized that the US must “finish the job,” or potentially be forced to strike Iran again in the next few years.

“We don’t want to go back every two years. Because someday there will be a time when you don’t have me as president.”

Upon his return to Washington Wednesday night, Trump said the US has effectively achieved air superiority over Iran, declaring that the regime is “pretty much at the end of the line.”

“They’ve got no Navy. They’ve got no Air Force. They have no systems of control. We’re just riding free range over that country!”

The president also used his Kentucky visit in part to boost the upcoming primary bid of Ed Gallrein, a former Navy SEAL challenging Rep. Thomas Massie for the Republican nomination for Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District.

Massie, a staunchly libertarian anti-interventionist who has clashed with the Trump administration repeatedly, faced no Democratic opponent in the 2024 general election for the heavily Republican district and easily defeated two primary challengers for the nomination.

However, Massie’s sharp criticism of the Trump administration, including his vocal opposition to US strikes against Iran, has led the president to endorse Gallrein, and to call on supporters to back his primary challenge.

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