🔻Trump: I could destroy all of Iran’s energy infrastructure, bridges and factories within three days

🔻Trump: I could destroy all of Iran’s energy infrastructure, bridges and factories within three days

Donald Trump, the U.S. president, said in a video interview that Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and other countries in the Persian Gulf region have asked him to refrain, for now, from carrying out further large-scale attacks against Iran. He claimed that if it were not for the requests from these countries, he would have been able to destroy Iran’s energy infrastructure, bridges, and production facilities within three days.

In an interview with Steven A. Smith at the White House that aired on Thursday — 12 November / 21 Aban — Trump said he could end the war immediately, but that he continued economic and military pressure on Iran at the request of the United States’ regional allies.

He said: “Saudi Arabia asked me to please keep things the way they are for a while.” Trump added that Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain also prefer that his current approach to confrontation with Iran continues.

When asked whether he would carry out further attacks against Iran if he did not receive such requests, he replied: “Yes, I would have.”

The U.S. president claimed that Washington has, so far, largely avoided targeting Iran’s energy infrastructure and bridges.

He said: “In one day, their energy resources are gone. In one day, their bridges are destroyed, and in one day, their industrial production capacity is gone. Doing these things only takes three days.”

The U.S. president also acknowledged that the increase in gasoline prices in the wake of the war played a role in the defeat of Republicans in the midterm elections, but at the same time he defended his decision to attack Iran once again.