Trump keeps Iran war open-ended 6 months after US-Israeli assault
What's new: Trump now says the fighting will last "as long as necessary," with no timetable to restart talks with Tehran.
Six months after the United States and Israel launched their war on Iran, President Donald Trump is now framing the conflict as open-ended after initially expecting it to last four to five weeks. Trump recently said the war would continue "as long as necessary" and that there is no timetable for resuming peace talks with Tehran. The conflict has stretched far beyond the timeline he first projected, with no clear end in sight. The shift underscores how a campaign pitched as relatively short has become a prolonged regional war, even as questions mount over what Washington has achieved and when diplomacy might resume.