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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Bowden

Trump’s UN ambassador declares ‘dominant victory’ in Iran — then says Pentagon could still send in US troops

The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations has said that the White House could still decide to deploy troops to Iran in the coming weeks even after claiming that the U.S. had already achieved a “dominant victory” in the war.

Mike Waltz, who served as Trump’s national security adviser before he was ousted in the wake of Signalgate, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday that the United States had “decimated” Iran’s military, including its naval, air and ballistic missile capabilities.

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