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Does the US have a way out of war with Iran?

2026-04-02 16:14:11Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Does the US have a way out of war with Iran?

More than a month after the Iran war began, President Trump delivered a speech to the nation on Wednesday evening to argue why he believes the conflict is necessary.

In a 19-minute speech from the White House, Mr. Trump said Iran's missiles and drone systems have been "dramatically limited and their weapons factories and missile launchers are being dismantled."

Although the US and Israeli militaries have destroyed many of Iran's ballistic missiles and launchers in airstrikes, Iran continues to launch missiles into the region.

However, Mr Trump described the military action as a great success and urged Americans, who are worried about its costs, to put things in perspective. He estimated that the war should begin to wind down within three weeks.

Trump did not outline a clear exit path

Mr. Trump vacillated between supporting negotiations to end the war and promising an escalation of violence.

“We are on track to meet all of America’s military objectives very, very soon,” he said. “We are going to hit them extremely hard. Over the next two or three weeks, we are going to put them back in the Stone Age, where they belong. In the meantime, the discussions are continuing.” 

Iran has said there are no direct talks with the United States, and US intelligence agencies have assessed that the Iranians are willing to keep communication channels open, but not to make concessions on this point.

He urged Americans to see the war in perspective.

Mr. Trump appeared sensitive to criticism that he has plunged the United States into a protracted conflict that is hurting the American economy and alienating voters who want a focus on domestic issues.

He listed the duration of World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and the Korean and Iraq wars to argue that his military campaign has been much shorter than past wars.

“It is very important that we keep this conflict in perspective,” Mr. Trump said.

He did not explicitly express empathy for the economic pain Americans are feeling, but Mr. Trump insisted that the war was worth it to eliminate what he argued was the threat from Iran.

“This is a real investment in the future of your children and grandchildren,” he said.

He appeared to rule out an operation to seize Iran's enriched uranium.

Mr. Trump has been considering whether to authorize a mission to extract highly enriched uranium that is secured beneath Iran's nuclear facility in Isfahan.

But on Wednesday, Mr. Trump said Iran's nuclear facilities have been hit so hard that "it would take months to get close to nuclear dust." He said the United States has satellites monitoring the facilities and would strike if Iran made any moves to take the material.

It is possible that Mr. Trump is fooling Iran after weeks of signaling his interest in securing the material. If not, he will have left the nuclear material exactly where it was before the war began, deep underground but theoretically within Iran’s reach, leaving open the question of what the conflict would have achieved in this regard.

He said the Strait of Hormuz is not America's problem.

The president reiterated his demands that countries that import oil from the Persian Gulf through the strait take the lead in forcing Iran to reopen it.

He declared that “we don’t need” the oil that passes through this corridor on the southern coast of Iran. It is true that the United States imports very little oil from the Gulf, but Mr. Trump’s stance ignores the economic reality that oil prices are set globally and that supply disruptions in the Middle East will be reflected in the United States.

Less oil on global markets means higher fuel prices for Americans. Other key commodities, such as fertilizers, are also exported through the Strait of Hormuz, meaning that if Iran shuts down much of the shipping, the risk of inflation in the prices of food and other goods increases.

He again hailed the operation in Venezuela as a model for Iran.

In the first minutes of his speech, Mr. Trump boasted about the success of the American mission to capture that country's leader, Nicolás Maduro.

Aides say Mr. Trump sees that operation as a model for what he wants to achieve in Iran. But the two situations are very different. In Venezuela, American forces quickly descended on Caracas and left with Mr. Maduro in custody. There were no American military casualties.


“That strike was swift, deadly, violent and respected by everyone around the world,” Mr. Trump said Wednesday evening. He added that the United States and Venezuela were “partners in joint ventures” and “were doing extremely well.”

In Iran, the war has so far left a hostile regime in place and more than a dozen American troops have been killed, while hundreds more have been wounded. ( New York Times )


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