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Trump says Iran war will be “over pretty quickly” as oil price hits 6 year high | BBC News

2026-03-09 News & Politics
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President Trump has said the war in Iran will be a “short term excursion” and “complete, pretty much”, while also insisting that it must end in “ultimate victory” with “the enemy totally and decisively defeated”. The US president also claimed that the war began because Iran had been preparing to attack the US “within a week”. He said: “They were ready. They had all these missiles, far more than anyone thought, and they were going to attack us. They were going to attack all of the Middle East and Israel, and if they had a nuclear weapon they would’ve used it on Israel, and this was going to be a major attack.” President Trump was speaking as oil prices surged to a recent high of more than $100 per barrel, its highest level for six years, before falling back. There have been more US and Israeli attacks on Iranian targets, while Turkey, the UAE, Kuwait and Qatar all said they had intercepted more Iranian missiles aimed at them. Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting from Dubai. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUog For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com/news #BBCNews

Top Comments (10)

@Liz-en2ed 2026-03-09

RELEASE ALL THE EPSTEIN FILES NOW!!!! RELEASE ALL THE EPSTEIN FILES NOW!!!! RELEASE ALL THE EPSTEIN FILES NOW!!!!

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@m.b5777 2026-03-09

Trump made the Ayotullah 30 years younger. 😂

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@commaback8861 2026-03-09

One year in and it’s already nonstop chaos. Hard to imagine three more years.

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@Kimm.J 2026-03-09

The best indicator of future behavior is past behavior.

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@Douglas_S26 2026-03-10

Over in 24 hours like him stopping Ukraine vs Russia war????

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@jolyn424 2026-03-09

From $pstein fury to epic failure

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@tonymcadam8362 2026-03-09

Trump: "I can do word salad. The best word salad you've ever seen. And dumps. I can do the biggest dumps ever. Beautiful, just beautiful, right after my morning covfefe".

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@NightRidah777 2026-03-10

If Trump told me it was sunny and warm outside I'd go out with an umbrella and a snow jacket 😂

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@karennarron9173 2026-03-10

Iran says it's not up to the US for when it'll be over

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@richardmarsden1897 2026-03-10

The US has announced the mandatory evacuation of diplomats from Saudi Arabia.

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