From his ballroom in Mar-a-Lago, president Donald Trump issued a repudiation to the rolling accusation that his administration has offered no clear guideline as to why the US finds itself at war with Iran – or when it is going to end. The more president Trump spoke, the thicker the haze of the next few days, and weeks, for the Middle East, and the knock-on global effects, became. But they [Iran] have no navy, they have no air force, they have no anti-aircraft equipment. As recently as Saturday, Trump suggested that obtaining the gas canisters would be “something we could do later on. “They went artificially up because of this excursion into a very positive thing,” Trump said, sounding sanguine about the spiralling prices.

Source: The Irish Times March 10, 2026 13:11 UTC