US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that American forces had struck Iran “last night”, hours after reports of an attack on Iran’s Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz and on the same day as Americans voted in high-stakes midterm elections.
The Journal reported that the attack was the latest in a series of strikes that had not been publicly announced. As soon as it was completed, we hit it last night very nicely. But I’m not looking to do that. And we’re very strong right now. “They have no airplanes. They have no anti-aircraft. We took some out last night. It’s just a minor attack. It wasn’t war. They built an anti-aircraft facility. It took them about two months. Unnamed US officials quoted by The Wall Street Journal, CNN, The New York Times and other media outlets described the strikes as defensive in nature.
During the same interview, Trump also announced that the US would end $4 billion in funding to Israel after the end of this year.
Speaking on Fox News’ ‘Fox & Friends’, Trump said, “They built an anti-aircraft facility… He described the strike as a “minor attack”. These remarks came on Election Day, which pollsters suggested could be a setback for Trump, as Democrats were projected to win the House of Representatives and had a chance of gaining control of the Senate, according to several media reports. During the interview, Trump said, “I’m not looking to, you know, kill lots of people, but if we have to, we’ll have to. We watched it get built, as soon as it was completed, we hit it last night very nicely,” he said.
