BBC Expert Delivers Brutal Reality Check To Trump Over Claim Iran War Is 'Already Won'

"Clearly, that hasn't happened."

A BBC expert has delivered a brutal reality check to Donald Trump over his claim that America has “already won” the war in Iran.

The US president made the bizarre boast in a social media post criticising Keir Starmer for not supporting America and Israeli’s bombing of the country.

Referring to British plans to send two Royal Navy ships to the region, Trump said: “We don’t need people that join wars after we’ve already won.”

But on Radio 4′s Today programme this morning, BBC international affairs editor Jeremy Bowen said Trump was obviously wrong.

He said: “Trump oscillates wildly in the kinds of things that he’s said. He even said over the course of the weekend regarding the British aircraft carrier proposal, he said we’ve won the war already. Well clearly, that hasn’t happened.”

Bowen also said Iran will be hoping that the huge spike in oil prices triggered by the war could convince Trump to call off the war.

He said: “What we’re seeing is a continuation of their strategy, which is essentially to spread the pain.

“They know they can’t take on the Americans and the Israelis in terms of firepower, but what they can do is create second and third order consequences, like a big hike in oil prices, which they might be hoping will press Donald Trump into thinking ‘right, time to declare victory and go home’.”

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