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\n President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cimportant update\u201d on the war in Iran ended up being more of a belated sales pitch as he sought Wednesday night to rally support from American voters for a conflict he started more than a month ago.\n <\/p>\n
\n In a roughly 20-minute address, Trump cast the US\u2019 attack as payback for nearly a half-century of violence by Iran and its proxies, arguing that the nation could not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon.\n <\/p>\n
\n He touted the military progress that the US has made over the last several weeks, describing the weeks of bombing as \u201cvictories like few people have ever seen before.\u201d And he pleaded for patience, calling the war an \u201cinvestment\u201d in Americans\u2019 future.\n <\/p>\n
\n Yet he did not offer any new answer for the main question on many voters\u2019 minds: When exactly the war will be over.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019m pleased to say that these core strategic objectives are nearing completion,\u201d Trump said, declining to offer any new details on his exit strategy beyond repeating his vow to bomb Iran \u201cback to the stone ages\u201d over the next two to three weeks.\n <\/p>\n
\n The president also did not articulate a specific endgame for the war, including whether he planned to send in ground troops to seize Iran\u2019s enriched uranium or degrade its ability to control the critical Strait of Hormuz.\n <\/p>\n
\n As for the diplomatic discussions that Trump had previously claimed were making progress, he offered no new signs of optimism. Instead, he only reiterated his threats to escalate by striking Iran\u2019s power plants \u2014 an action that risks further widening a war Trump has only just begun to sell to the American public.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe new group is less radical and much more reasonable,\u201d he said. \u201cYet if during this period of time, no deal is made, we have our eyes on key targets.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cimportant update\u201d on the war in Iran ended up being more of a belated sales…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-559921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}