ANKARA, July 8 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he did not think a full-fledged conflict with Iran would erupt in the wake of military strikes from both sides.
“I don’t think it’s going to start again. I think it’s going to go very quickly. They hit a couple of ships, and so we hit them much harder,” Trump told reporters in Ankara after a NATO summit.
“Anything that happens is going to be over very quickly … and will only make it safer, including for oil,” he said.
The U.S. president also reiterated his previous comments that he was a target of Tehran.
“I’m number one on the kill list for Iran,” he said.
(Reporting by Gram Slattery, additional reporting by Ryan Patrick Jones, writing by Bhargav Acharya;Editing by David Ljunggren)
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