As President Donald Trump’s Iran war enters its third week with the Islamic Republic government still intact, lawmakers from both parties say they have not heard administration officials describe an exit strategy.
The commander in chief on Sunday night again contended that the U.S. and Israel have “essentially defeated Iran.” But the Strait of Hormuz, a key passageway for oil tanker ships, remains mostly closed and the Iranian government remains in power.
“I think I just say they’re decimated,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One. “I think that we’ve done damage to them. Right now, if we left right now, it would take them 10 years at war to rebuild. But I’m still not declaring it over.”
