On Midterm Election Day, Trump: "We Hit Iranian Air Defense Facilities Last Night"

On the 3rd, local time, the day of the U.S. midterm elections, U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States had struck Iranian air defense facilities the previous night and suggested it could launch further military strikes if necessary.

In an interview with Fox News' "Fox & Friends" that day, President Trump said, "Iran built air defense facilities, and it took about two months," adding, "We watched them being built, and as soon as they were completed, we hit them very well last night." He explained, "It was just a small attack, not a war."

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) previously reported that the United States had attacked Qeshm Island, a strategic Iranian location in the Strait of Hormuz, the previous day. However, it has not been confirmed whether the strike on the air defense facilities Trump mentioned was the same attack on Qeshm Island reported earlier.

Asked about the future of the war with Iran after the midterm elections, President Trump left open the possibility of further strikes, saying, "I don't want to kill a lot of people, but if necessary, we'll have to do that." At the same time, he struck a cautious note, saying, "It's not something I'm trying to do."

President Trump said of the war with Iran, "Actually, this is not a war," arguing that the United States had simply struck Iran hard at the outset and that the situation was different from the prolonged fighting between two countries, as in Russia and Ukraine.

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