The president of the United States, Donald Trump, assured, without evidence, that the war against Iran “it’s won” but suggested that it will continue for a while, without specifying the period it may last. “The majority tells me that it is already won,” Trump responded to the press on his return to Washington about the status of the war against Iran, after participating in a Republican rally in Kentucky, adding that even though it is won it does not mean that it will end immediately. Hours earlier, the president had already described the war as won, during a 60-minute speech at a Republican Party rally in a town in northern Kentucky.
Trump told his supporters at the event that The entire Iranian navy has “disappeared” and detailed that the US armed forces destroyed 58 Iranian ships in the last 72 hoursalthough in the morning he had assured that 60 ships were destroyed.
Regarding oil reserves, the president has assured that will tap strategic oil reserves “quickly” and “fill” them. Trump recalled that during his previous Administration he had already filled the strategic oil reserves and criticized the Democrats’ opposition: “If you remember, I filled them, and then I had a deal at the highest level, a level that had never been there; Ed Schumer and the Democrats for $25 rejected it.” In addition, the Republican indicated that the possibility of intervene in oil futures markets as a mechanism to keep prices lowwhen questioned about it.
Before his statements, the United States Department of Energy reported that will release 172 million barrels of oil from its energy reserve to deal with the escalation in crude oil prices.