'War with Iran will continue for a little while, we've decimated their evil empire': Trump

In it's war with Iran, the United States President on Saturday claimed that the US army had wiped out the entire Iranian leadership. He also termed the action as getting rid of a major 'cancer' off the face of the earth. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Miami, he said "the war itself is going unbelievably' and that they have "decimated their whole evil empire"

"We're winning the war by a lot. We've decimated their whole evil empire. It'll continue I'm sure for a little while...The war itself is going unbelievably. It's as good as it can be," said Trump.

He also went on to say that his administration had achieved much more than anyone thought was possible.

"We've wiped out their (Iranian) navy, 44 ships. We've wiped out their air force, every plane. We've wiped out most of their missiles. You see the missiles aren't coming much anymore. We've also hit their manufacturing areas where they make the missiles very hard. Their drone capacity is way down and we've hurt them where it hurts, including about every form of leadership you can have we've wiped out," Trump added.

On being asked about the earlier projection of six-week timeline he said he “he never project time, whatever it takes.”

Then he went on to say that "the (Iranian) military is almost nonexistent. We could hit their military itself very hard but maybe we will, maybe we won't, we haven't made that determination."

"We've hit the manufacturing very hard. They're at about nine per cent of what they sent out in the first two days and we think that's because they don't have that much. We've also knocked out about 70 per cent of the rockets of the launchers. The launchers are a big deal, very hard to get, very expensive," he added.

The Iran war has entered its second week after US and Israel launched a joint attack on the country and killed its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.