Trump refuses to call conflict with Iran a war
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Zambian Observer
Donald Trump refuses to call the confrontation between the United States and Iran a war, arguing that the absence of American deaths or injuries for several months does not meet that definition. The US president compared the situation with the casualties recorded in the war in Ukraine, according to Zambian Observer.
US President Donald Trump refused to call the confrontation between the United States and Iran a war, on the grounds that no American had been killed or injured in recent months. “This is not a war, and it cannot be a war when nobody has been injured or killed for five months,” he said, according to the Zambian Observer.
Trump contrasted this situation with the war between Russia and Ukraine, saying about 25,000 people are killed there each month. “We have had no deaths and suffered no losses for seven months, so I don't think this is a war,” he added, cited by the same media outlet.
The statement came three days after Vice-President J. D. Vance attributed the Republican defeat in the 3 November elections to the war in Iran, and one day after our readers learned that the elections remove an obstacle to a new war with Iran. On 5 November, Iran had claimed Trump's electoral defeat was a consequence of the Strait of Hormuz war.
