The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has said this Wednesday that he would order the war against Iran again, despite the harsh setback suffered by the Republican Party in the legislative elections held the night before. The defeat, which has been linked by his “number two,” JD Vance, and other political figures to the increased cost of living resulting from the conflict that began at the end of February, has not made the president rethink his decision.
“We had to do what we did about Iran and we’re still doing it. Right now we have an enormous flow of oil coming out of Hormuz. At the beginning, there was nothing. And that’s probably the main reason (for the electoral defeat), the price, not the war, the price,” he said in remarks to the press.
Along these lines, he has underscored that “if I had to do it again, I would do it again because, in the long run, it’s the only solution: you can’t allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.”
The current occupant of the White House has acknowledged that the war “caused a slight increase in the price of gasoline in the short term,” although he then emphasized that if it had been allowed for Iran to develop a nuclear weapon—and therefore attacks had not been launched on Iranian territory—“maybe everything you see here would cease to exist.”
“I did it based on that. There’s no other option. Maybe this could really be the only thing that’s done,” Trump insisted, who also said that “I’ll get along with the Democrats unless they want to be destructive.” “They want to talk about things, and that’s fine,” he said.
Asked about the words of the U.S. vice president, the president said he knows “how [Vance] feels” and that both of them have spoken about it. In addition, he has again defended his strategy toward Tehran, stressing that in Washington they were aware of the repercussions it would bring. “We knew it. I knew it before going in (into Iran). We’ve prevented them from having a nuclear weapon, and they’ll never have one,” he reiterated.
Trump has also ruled out removing the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, by stating that “he’s doing a great job” at the head of the U.S. Armed Forces and added that “it would be very popular” as a senator.
The 'midterms' have represented a serious setback for the Republicans, after the Democrats have fulfilled the most favorable forecasts by taking control of both chambers of the United States Congress and stringing together historic victories in the governor elections in key states such as Texas, Ohio or Georgia.