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While President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that the U.S. won the Iran war, Iran and Israel seek to continue fighting.
Specifically, Iran again refused a U.S.-proposed ceasefire on Tuesday while Israel announced Wednesday that its war against Iran will continue without any time limit. After helping Israel incite the conflict, Trump appears to be uninterested in continuing the fight.
“We won! We won! In the first hour it was over,” Trump said at a political rally Wednesday.
The Jewish State seeks to keep the war going until Israel’s objectives are achieved.
“The operation will continue without any time limit, as long as required, until we accomplish all objectives and achieve victory in the campaign,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said during a meeting with Jewish military leaders.
The Islamic Republic disregarded Trump upping his threats over Tehran placing mines in the Strait of Hormuz, instead reacting by taking control of the situation via keeping the end of the war on its timeframe, not Washington’s.
“Certainly we aren’t seeking a ceasefire,” Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, a former top Revolutionary Guards commander said Tuesday. “We believe the aggressor must be punished and taught a lesson that will deter them from attacking Iran again.”
According to CEO of World Independent News, Dominic Tripi, Tehran now refuses to negotiate “as long as an entity called Israel exists.”
On Tuesday the IRGC (Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp) responded to Trump’s announcement that the Iran war is “complete” by saying Tehran will decide when the war is over, not Washington.
“I think the war is very complete, pretty much,” Trump told CBS News Monday evening. “They have no navy, no communications, they’ve got no air force … If you look, they have nothing left. There’s nothing left in a military sense.”
“It is we who will determine the end of the war,” the IRGC said in a statement Tuesday. “The equations and future status of the region are now in the hands of our armed forces; American forces will not end the war.”
While Iran and Israel seek to control when the war ends by keeping it going, Washington appears to be seeking to control the conflict while looking for an exit.
On Sunday Trump announced that in order to put an end to the Iran war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would have to agree to end it.
“I think it’s mutual … a little bit. We’ve been talking. I’ll make a decision at the right time, but everything’s going to be taken into account,” Trump said.
Netanyahu effectively visits Trump every two months, much of these meetings go on behind closed doors.
“No other world leader has visited the United States in an official capacity over the past year more than Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu,” Al Jazeera said in February. “And the Israeli prime minister is set to break his own record when he embarks on yet another trip to the U.S. this week – his sixth since President Donald Trump returned to the White House early in 2025.”
Trump warned Iran on Tuesday not to mine the Strait of Hormuz.
“If Iran has put out any mines in the Hormuz Strait, and we have no reports of them doing so, we want them removed, IMMEDIATELY! If for any reason mines were placed, and they are not removed forthwith, the Military consequences to Iran will be at a level never seen before,” the President said.
On Thursday Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announced that Tehran rejects a ceasefire with Washington, instead declaring that it’s ready for the U.S. ground invasion, which President Trump said at the time may go on forever.
“We are waiting for them,” Araghchi said of the possible U.S. ground invasion. “Because we are confident that we can confront them, and that would be a big disaster for them.”
