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The Guardian - US
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Hugo Lowell aboard Air Force One

Trump vague on Iran’s ‘unconditional surrender’ as he refuses to rule out US troop deployment

Trump and Hegseth in a narrow hallway with reporters' hands holding our microphones
Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth aboard Air Force One en route from Dover air force base in Delaware to Miami on Saturday. Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP

Donald Trump on Saturday offered only a vague description of what he meant by his demand for an unconditional surrender by Iran’s current regime, while leaving open the possibility of deploying American troops on the ground but ruling out asking Kurdish forces to mount an invasion.

“I said unconditional. It’s where they cry uncle or when they can’t fight any longer and there’s nobody around to cry uncle — that could happen too,” Trump said when pressed by the Guardian aboard Air Force One.

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