Trump Provides Update, Says Iran’s Navy and Air Force Destroyed

President Donald Trump said on March 11 that Iran’s military has been severely degraded by U.S.–Israeli strikes during the conflict that started in late February. On Wednesday, Iran attacked commercial ships across the Persian Gulf and also Dubai International Airport, escalating a campaign of squeezing the oil-rich region as global energy concerns mounted. The International Energy Agency, meanwhile, agreed to release the largest volume of emergency oil reserves in its history to counter the war’s effects on energy markets. “Our military is the best. It’s the most powerful in the world, and they’re hitting them very hard,” Trump told reporters as he was leaving the White House on Air Force One, adding that “we’re not finished yet.”...