President Donald Trump says the U.S. has “already won” in Iran after what he describes as the destruction of its military and leadership, but the conflict isn’t over until Tehran guarantees it will never seek a nuclear weapon. In an interview with Newsmax host Greta van Susteren, Trump said Iran would use a nuclear weapon, just like the Democrats would terminate the filibuster. “We have to have guarantees that they will never have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said. “Because just like the Democrats will use the filibuster, will terminate it. Just like they — I will tell you that Iran would use the nuclear weapon if they had it. I deal with these people. I know people, they will use the nuclear weapon and we’re not going to give them a chance to do it.”

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, NEWSMAX: I’ve been around Washington long enough to know that I never know what’s going on on the inside, media is always on the outside, but looking at the Iran war, haven’t you already won? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I mean, isn’t it, I mean, we’ve already won, but I want to win by a bigger margin. But we have, we already, we have destroyed their Navy, destroyed their Air Force, destroyed all of their, if you look at their anti-aircraft equipment, their radar equipment, their leadership. Their leadership is destroyed. We’ve destroyed everything. If we leave right now, it would take them 20 years to rebuild if they ever could rebuild. And, but it’s not, it’s actually not good enough. We have to have guarantees that they will never have a nuclear weapon. VAN SUSTEREN: Who is their leadership? TRUMP: Because just like the Democrats will use the filibuster, will terminate it. Just like they — I will tell you that Iran would use the nuclear weapon if they had it. I deal with these people. I know people, they will use the nuclear weapon and we’re not going to give them a chance to do it. And I actually think it’s very popular what I’m doing. I can tell you worldwide, the world is thanking me because I shouldn’t be the one that’s doing it. Other presidents should have done it long before me and other countries should have done it. We were not helped by NATO at all. Other countries should have done it. VAN SUSTEREN: Well, you know, I think it’s a fact that no country in the world wants Iran to have a nuclear weapon. Nobody does. TRUMP: But they don’t want to do anything about it. They don’t want to do anything about it. They always say that. [CROSSTALK] TRUMP: Well, even some are better friends. Then you have the German chancellor, whatever he is, who says that, well, he disagrees with me on nuclear weapons for Iran. I said, if you disagree with me on nuclear weapons for Iran, you’re doing a great disservice to the people of Germany. And, you know, how has he done with Ukraine? I mean, they’ve been fighting that war long before I got into office. How is the German chancellor done in Ukraine? Not too well. Not too well. So what they have to do is they have to focus on immigration and energy, not on me, because we have decimated Iran. And Iran is talking, and they want something to happen. But they’re not there yet. And if they’re not going to be there, they will never have a nuclear weapon.

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