Trump Rejects Iran Talks as US-Israel Military Campaign Decimates Iranian Defenses

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President Donald Trump speaking before participating in a Medal of Honor ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo)

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that Iranian leadership “wants to talk” amid America and Israel’s joint strike on Tehran but the Republican leader said, “It’s too late.” Trump added that Iran’s “air defense, Air Force, Navy, and Leadership is gone.”

This comes following Trump’s earlier comments that US has “the capability to go far longer” than its projected four-to-five-week time frame for its military operations against Iran.

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