Speaking with reporters at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday night, President Trump implied that strikes on Iran up until this point have focused mainly on the regime, military, and police. But he warns the Islamic Republic that if they do not comply with his demands, the U.S. could begin to target civilian infrastructure that “would take them 25 years to rebuild.” “We can hit electric. We could take apart their electric capacity within one hour,” Trump said. “Ideally, we’re not going to be doing that.” “We can hit sections of Tehran and other places that, if you do it, it’ll be almost impossible for them to rebuild their country — and we don’t want that,” Trump said.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: The main thing is we have to win this thing. Win it quickly, but win it! And there are many people, I’m just watching some of the news, most people say it’s already been won, it’s just a question of when do we stop. We don’t want to let it re-grow. And ideally, we’d like to see somebody in there that knows what they’re doing. In other words, they can build a country. Now, one other thing. We can hit sections of Tehran and other places that, if you do it, it’ll be almost impossible for them to rebuild their country. And we don’t want that. But we can hit electric. We could take apart their electric capacity within one hour. And it would take them 25 years to rebuild it. So ideally, we’re not going to be doing that. Thank you very much.

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