‘Big Wave’ In War With Iran Will Soon Come— US President Trump Threatens To Hit Hard
President Donald Trump of United States has declared that Iran will soon be hit with the most intense phase of the ongoing war.
Speaking during a nine-minute phone interview with CNN on Monday morning, Trump said U.S. operations were progressing successfully, while hinting at a significant escalation in the coming days.
“We’re knocking the crap out of them,” Trump told CNN. “I think it’s going very well. It’s very powerful. We’ve got the greatest military in the world, and we’re using it.”
The president further cautioned that the current strikes represent only an early stage of the conflict, adding that a more decisive phase, which he described as a “big wave,” have not yet been launched.
“We haven’t even started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn’t even happened. The big one is coming soon,” Trump said, warning that conditions in the region could become increasingly dangerous.
He added that civilians should remain indoors for safety reasons, saying, “Right now we want everyone staying inside. It’s not safe out there.”
Trump said he initially expected the conflict to last about four weeks but suggested U.S. forces were ahead of schedule.
“I don’t want to see it go on too long. I always thought it would be four weeks. And we’re a little ahead of schedule,” he said.
While declining to outline specific diplomatic steps, Trump confirmed that Washington was pursuing efforts beyond military action aimed at helping Iranian citizens regain control from the ruling government, responding simply, “Yes,” when asked if such measures were underway.
The president described Iran’s retaliatory attacks against several Arab countries, including Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, as the most unexpected development of the war.
“We were surprised,” Trump said. “We told them, ‘We’ve got this,’ and now they want to fight. And they’re aggressively fighting.”
According to Trump, Iranian strikes targeting civilian locations angered regional leaders and drew them further into the conflict.
“They shot into a hotel, they shot into an apartment house. It just made them angry,” he said, adding that Arab leaders were “tough and smart.”
Trump claimed U.S. strikes had severely disrupted Iran’s leadership structure, asserting that dozens of senior figures were killed during initial attacks.
“Forty-nine people,” he said. “It was an amazing strike.”
“They got a little bit arrogant by meeting all in one place,” Trump added, saying Iranian officials believed they could not be detected. “They weren’t undetectable.”
He suggested uncertainty now surrounds Iran’s leadership, saying, “We don’t know who’s leading the country now. They don’t know who’s leading.”
The president said diplomatic negotiations collapsed after Iran refused to halt uranium enrichment, which Washington considers a central security threat.
“We couldn’t make a deal with these people,” Trump said, adding that Iranian negotiators repeatedly withdrew earlier concessions.
“They had all that enriched stuff,” he said, arguing that military action became necessary after talks failed.
President Trump also said he is not ruling out sending US troops into Iran.
“I don’t have the yips with respect to boots on the ground,” Trump said, using a golf term for anxiety. “Every president says, ‘There will be no boots on the ground.’ I don’t say it.”
“I say ‘probably don’t need them,’ (or) ‘if they were necessary.'”