President Trump announces an ‘Address to the Nation’ on Iran

President Donald Trump will make a ‘Speech to the Nation’ on Iran on Wednesday night.

The speech was announced on Tuesday night by press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who called it an “important update on Iran.”

The address will be announced in prime time at 21:00 ET.

The White House did not immediately release additional details about the conversation, but it is likely to take place in the Oval Office.

Trump has not made a major speech since the Iran war began late last month.

During a back-and-forth call with reporters on Tuesday afternoon, Trump said he planned to leave Iran “very soon” and that the first military operation was expected to last no longer than six weeks.

He predicted the fighting would last another ‘two weeks, maybe three’. ‘But we’re finishing the job,’ he said.

US and Israeli attacks on Iran began on February 28 and reached the lunar anniversary over the weekend.

‘We overthrew a regime. We overthrew the second regime. We have a very, very different group of people now. “They’re a lot more reasonable, I think they’re a lot more, a lot less radical,” Trump said.

‘We have experienced a regime change, we deal with people much more rationally,’ he added.

Senior Iranian officials continue to publicly deny that negotiations with the United States are ongoing.

At a White House briefing on Monday, Leavitt said not to believe those statements.

‘Despite all the attitudes and false news that the regime hears in public, the talks continue and are going well,’ he said. ‘What is said publicly is of course very different from what is communicated to us privately.’

While talks reportedly continued, Trump postponed larger attacks on Iran’s energy infrastructure.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, the top warmonger in the Senate, backed away from calls to step up military strikes in an X post on Monday.

Graham encouraged Trump to ‘stop the war and end efforts to achieve a historic peace agreement’.

A video shared on social media on Tuesday shows the aftermath of the bombing campaign in Isfahan, Iran. US President Donald Trump said that US military intervention in Iran will last 2-3 more weeks

A man clears debris left over from a drone attack on a residential building in Tehran, Iran, on Tuesday

The South Carolina Republican said the goal of the conflict should be for Saudi Arabia to sign the Abraham Accords, which would normalize relations with Israel.

The Abraham Accords were considered a major diplomatic victory during Trump’s first term, and administration officials have worked to get other Arab countries to join them during Trump 2.0.

Several Iranian-backed proxies have been responsible for the ongoing tense relations between Israel and the Jewish state’s Arab neighbors, including the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which started the war in Gaza.

Some of Trump’s main MAGA supporters on Capitol Hill have encouraged the Republican President not to launch a ground attack on Iran that would endanger thousands of US forces.

Thousands of Marines and other U.S. forces have been deployed to the Middle East in recent days.

On Tuesday, Trump also said that once the military intervention is over, U.S. allies will be able to fend for themselves in getting oil ships through the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran blocks.

“If France or any other country wants to buy oil or natural gas, they will go through the Bosphorus, the Strait of Hormuz, and they will be able to fend for themselves,” Trump said. ‘I actually think it would be very safe.’

‘But we have nothing to do with it. “Whatever happens to the Bosphorus, we will have nothing to do with it,” he continued.

Throughout the conflict, Trump has berated allies, particularly NATO members, for not volunteering to help patrol the Strait of Hormuz, a key route for global oil transportation.

According to AAA, gas prices in the U.S. have increased by $1 per gallon nationally since the strikes began.