NYT: Trump told advisors US strikes "limited action" rather than start of "prolonged battle"

A White House advisor revealed that US President Donald Trump has privately acknowledged that he views the US air strikes on Iran as a "limited action" and not the first step towards a wider war. 

This statement, made by an unnamed US government advisor, has been published in an article from the New York Times, Caliber.Az reports, following the June 22 US strikes on multiple Iranian nuclear sites.

While the publication cautiously notes that the fact that Trump also threatened further attacks is an indication of "how armed conflict is rarely clean or predictable, as America’s long and costly engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan proved."

According to the article, Trump has in a separate conversation told other advisers and associates in recent days that he has no interest in joining a "prolonged battle to topple Iran’s leadership."

In his public address to the US nation on the air strikes, the president said that the US army's objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and urged Tehran that they "must now make peace", threatening that "tragedy" will otherwise await the country.

By Nazrin Sadigova