U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media subsequent to White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt, on the White Home in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 11, 2026.
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday mentioned he is not nervous about Iran executing a terror assault inside the US in retaliation for the continued conflict by the U.S. and Israel.
“No, I do not,” Trump informed a reporter outdoors the White Home when requested if he feared such a home assault.
Trump additionally touted progress within the conflict in opposition to Iran, which is in its eleventh day, earlier than departing for a visit to Kentucky and Ohio.
“Proper now, they’ve misplaced their Navy, their Air Pressure. They don’t have any anti-aircraft equipment in any respect,” the president mentioned. “Their leaders are gone, and we might do lots worse.”
Trump mentioned the U.S. navy is “leaving sure issues” in Iran, which may very well be destroyed by the afternoon, if want be, and “they actually would by no means be capable of construct that nation again.”
Later within the day, Trump informed reporters upon arrival at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland that the U.S. has situated all Iranian “sleeper cells” — covert teams embedded in international nations that stay dormant till activated to hold out terror assaults.
“We all know the place Iranian ‘sleeper cells’ are … we’ve eyes on all of them,” Trump mentioned, including that the U.S. was “in superb form” in its conflict on Iran, in line with a Reuters feed of his assertion.
The U.S. navy had destroyed about 16 of Iran’s mine-layers, Trump mentioned. Requested if Iran had mined the Strait of Hormuz, which is the world’s most delicate choke level for oil shipments, Trump mentioned, “We do not assume so.”
In a report Tuesday that cited two folks conversant in U.S. intelligence reporting, CNN mentioned that Iran started laying mines within the strait, albeit just some dozen in current days.
Trump, referring to the CEOs of main oil corporations, mentioned, “I believe they need to” ship tankers by means of the slender strait, which has remained successfully closed due to the conflict.
A spokesman for Iran’s Ministry of International Affairs warned Monday that tankers passing by means of the strait “should be very cautious.”
The Strait of Hormuz, which lies off the southern coast of Iran, connects the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea.
The insurance coverage large Chubb mentioned Wednesday that it’s going to function lead underwriter for a U.S.-government-led program to supply insurance coverage to ships passing by means of the strait.
Trump on Wednesday dismissed a query a few report by The New York Instances, which mentioned that “newly launched video provides to the proof that an American missile possible hit an Iranian elementary faculty the place 175 folks, a lot of them youngsters, have been reported killed.”
Trump mentioned, “I do not find out about that” discovering, which backs up different analyses that the U.S. navy was accountable for that Feb. 28 assault on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary faculty.
The president once more criticized the management of Spain for not serving to the U.S. conflict effort.
“We might reduce off commerce with Spain,” mentioned Trump, who has a penchant for utilizing tariffs and different retaliatory commerce practices as leverage in opposition to different nations.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has incurred Trump’s wrath for barring the U.S. navy from utilizing two bases in Andalusia to launch strikes on Iran.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, in an X put up on Wednesday, wrote that in conversations with “the presidents of the governments of Russia and Pakistan, whereas asserting the Islamic Republic’s dedication to peace and tranquility within the area, I emphasised that the one method to finish the conflict that started with the warmongering of the Zionist regime and America is the acceptance of Iran’s indeniable rights, fee of reparations, and a agency worldwide obligation to forestall their aggression from recurring.”
