President Donald Trump speaks about the Iran war from the White House on Wednesday, in Washington. In a roughly 20-minute address, Trump cast the US’ attack as payback for nearly a half-century of violence by Iran and its proxies, arguing that the nation could not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon. Yet he did not offer any new answer for the main question on many voters’ minds: When exactly the war will be over. As for the diplomatic discussions that Trump had previously claimed were making progress, he offered no new signs of optimism. Instead, he only reiterated his threats to escalate by striking Iran’s power plants — an action that risks further widening a war Trump has only just begun to sell to the American public.

Source: CNN April 01, 2026 18:15 UTC