{"id":2586362,"date":"2026-04-01T22:37:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-iran-war-to-continue-for-up-to-three-weeks\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T22:39:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:39:36","slug":"trump-says-iran-war-to-continue-for-up-to-three-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-iran-war-to-continue-for-up-to-three-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Iran war to continue for up to three weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-says-iran-war-to-continue-for-up-to-three-weeks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2586362&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Donald Trump said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-lies-about-vaccines-spark-criticism-rebuttal-by-ap-fact-check\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s lies about vaccines spark criticism, rebuttal by AP Fact-Check\">prime-time address<\/a> that the U.S. war wiht Iran is nearing its end,predicting two to three weeks of heavy strikes before Iran is \u201cbombed back to the stone ages.\u201d He outlined the management\u2019s strategic objectives as destroying Iran\u2019s navy, air force, and missile capabilities; cutting Tehran\u2019s funding to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-demand-full-funding-for-israeli-security-aid\/\" title=\"Lawmakers Demand Full ... for Israeli Security Aid\">terrorist proxy groups<\/a>; and preventing Iran from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-a-veteran-who-witnessed-iranian-aggression-heres-why-john-kerrys-behavior-is-so-alarming\/\" title=\"As A Veteran Who Witnessed ...ian Aggression, Here\u2019s Why John Kerry\u2019s Behavior Is So Alarming\">obtaining nuclear weapons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Key points:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; He asserted that regime change has already occurred as Iran\u2019s original leaders are dead, and a new, less radical group now governs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; He warned that if Iran fails to meet U.S. terms, there will be simultaneous strikes on every electric generating plant, arguing that energy costs for Americans and allies would rise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The president praised the armed forces for their conduct, honored 13 American service members killed in Iran\u2019s retaliation, and said the \u201chard part\u201d is done and the conflict will end quickly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; He claimed that once the conflict ends, the Strait of Hormuz would reopen and oil prices would fall, urging European and Asian partners to buy oil from the United States to offset costs and pressuring alliances already involved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; He also pressed allies, including NATO members, to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >support efforts related<\/a> to the war, and referenced ongoing peace talks in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; A video of the remarks was embedded with the article, and the piece noted related \u201crecommended stories.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump says Iran war to continue for up to three weeks: &lsquo;Bring them back to the stone ages&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2549745\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4504494\/trump-shifts-iran-timeline-again-critics-question-endgame\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> voiced confidence Wednesday that the<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iran\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"100\"> war in Iran<\/a> is drawing to a close, predicting two to three weeks of heavy strikes from the United States before Iran is bombed &ldquo;back to the stone ages.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump addressed the nation in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnns-ratings-tanked-44-the-week-after-trump-left-the-white-house\/\" title=\"CNN\u2019s Ratings Tanked 44% The Week After ... Left The White House\">prime time<\/a> on Wednesday evening, where he claimed that his campaign was nearing completion of its <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/4503543\/white-house-projects-optimism-hours-after-iran-rejects-us-peace-plan\/\">strategic objectives<\/a>: destroying Iran&rsquo;s navy, air force, and missile capabilities, preventing Iran from funding terrorist proxy groups, and preventing <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tehran\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"3008\">Tehran<\/a> from obtaining nuclear weapons.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4511855\/watch-live-trump-address-iran-war\/\">WATCH LIVE: Trump gives &#8216;important update&#8217; on Iran war in address to nation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4512722\/trump-address-to-the-nation-burning-questions-iran-strait-hormuz-nato\/\">Trump&#8217;s address to the nation: Burning questions on Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, and NATO<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4512952\/trump-tiger-woods-treatment-dui-car-crash\/\">Trump praises &#8216;champion&#8217; Tiger Woods for seeking treatment after DUI rollover crash<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Our armed forces have been extraordinary. There&rsquo;s never been anything like it,&rdquo; he declared before honoring the 13 American service members killed in Iran&rsquo;s retaliatory attacks. &ldquo;We are going to finish the job. And we&rsquo;re going to finish it very fast. We&rsquo;re getting very close.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks,&rdquo; Trump continued. &ldquo;We are going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The president, who has previously claimed that regime change was not a goal of Operation Epic Fury, did acknowledge that &ldquo;regime change has occurred because all of their original leaders are dead.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The new group is less radical and much more reasonable,&rdquo; he continued, citing recent <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/4505479\/trump-iran-power-plants-10-days-peace-talks\/\">peace talks<\/a>, warning that failure by Iranian officials to meet the United States&rsquo; terms would result in simultaneous strikes on &ldquo;each and every one of their electric generating plants.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Still, Trump subtly addressed the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/energy\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"8777\">rising energy<\/a> costs the war is presenting to both American consumers and allies. Though the president has expressed significant frustration with <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4512810\/trump-pressured-nato-ukraine-supplies-iran-war\/\">European<\/a> and Asian countries&rsquo; refusal to assist the U.S. in the war effort, he suggested countries struggling with increased oil and gas costs should instead &ldquo;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/oil\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"292\">buy oil<\/a> from the United States of America.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, he again pressed those countries to &ldquo;go to the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/strait-of-hormuz\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"21488\">Strait [of Hormuz]<\/a>  and just take it, protect it, and use it for yourselves.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4512810\/trump-pressured-nato-ukraine-supplies-iran-war\/\"><strong>TRUMP PRESSURED NATO ALLIES WITH UKRAINE SUPPLIES OVER IRAN WAR: REPORT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Iran has been essentially decimated. The hard part is done, so it should be easy, and in any event, when this conflict is over, the strait will open up naturally,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;They are going to want to be able to sell oil, because that is all they have to try and rebuild. It will resume the flowing and the gas prices will rapidly come back down. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/stock-market\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"3745\">Stock prices<\/a> will rapidly go back up.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>You can watch Trump&rsquo;s comments in full below.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"OzhLRPZfOMQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Trump Delivers an Address to the Nation, Apr. 1, 2026\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OzhLRPZfOMQ?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump: Iran war to last 2-3 weeks; heavy strikes ahead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2586363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AP26092058957263.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[3823,4252,3634,50434],"class_list":["post-2586362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-iran","tag-timeline","tag-trump","tag-war-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AP26092058957263.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2586362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2586366,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586362\/revisions\/2586366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2586363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2586362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2586362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2586362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}