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\n\nUnited States President Donald Trump said that the ongoing confrontation with Iran is "not a war", saying that there have been no US casualties for five months, and rather called it a "minor military operation". He claimed that Washington has made significant progress in dealing with Tehran and is currently extracting more oil than before the hostilities.
\n\n"We made a lot of progress with Iran. We’re taking out more oil now than we were before the war. It’s not a war. It can’t be a war when for five months nobody was hurt, killed, or anything else. It’s not a war," Trump told reporters.
\n\n"…If we didn't do that, you wouldn't have Israel existing right now, and you wouldn't have the Middle East. They would have used a nuclear weapon," the US President said.
\n\nThe comments come amid fears of escalation following the US Midterm elections. For weeks, Trump has threatened to return to a full-scale bombardment of Iran once the US midterm elections were in the rearview mirror if Tehran did not come to a settlement under terms acceptable to him.
\n\nIran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday that two missiles…
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