{"id":39745,"date":"2026-05-31T12:25:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T10:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/trump-says-the-us-left-irans-military-intact-citing-lessons-from-the-iraq-war\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T12:25:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T10:25:32","slug":"trump-says-the-us-left-irans-military-intact-citing-lessons-from-the-iraq-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/trump-says-the-us-left-irans-military-intact-citing-lessons-from-the-iraq-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says the US left Iran&#8217;s military &#8220;intact,&#8221; citing lessons from the Iraq war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Presidenti-amerikan-Donald-Trump-1.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has stated that Washington has deliberately refrained from striking Iran&#8217;s military, arguing that past wars have shown the dangers of disintegrating a country&#8217;s institutions and armed forces, Anadolu reports. when they heard that, because mistakes have been made in wars where everyone is eliminated and then a situation is created where a country cannot be rebuilt for 40 years,&#8221; Trump said in an interview with Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Trump cited Iraq as an example of what he described as a failed American approach to previous conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look at what happened to Iraq. We did so badly, it was such a stupid thing,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The president The US also reiterated his claim that Iran would have secured nuclear weapons if the US had not struck Iranian nuclear facilities with B-2 bombers last June.<\/p>\n<p>He also stressed that he was in no &#8220;rush&#8221; to finalize a deal with Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you rush, you won&#8217;t get a good deal,&#8221; he said, adding that the two sides were &#8220;close to a very good deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also said the &#8220;only guarantee&#8221; he wants in any deal is that Iran doesn&#8217;t get nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only guarantee I have is that there will be no nuclear weapons, they agreed to that,&#8221; Trump said, although Iranian officials have not confirmed such a clause in any deal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Slowly but surely, we&#8217;re getting what I think we want, and if we don&#8217;t get what we want, we&#8217;re going to end it in some way other&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has stated that Washington has deliberately refrained from striking Iran&#8217;s military, arguing that past wars have shown the dangers of disintegrating a country&#8217;s institutions and armed forces, Anadolu reports. when they heard that, because mistakes have been made in wars where everyone is eliminated and then a situation is created where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-39745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":6,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39747,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39745\/revisions\/39747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}