U.S. President Donald Trump said he has no regrets about starting the Iran war and added that "If I had it to do again, I would do exactly what I did."
Speaking to Fox News presenter Laura Ingraham on Thursday stateside, Trump said that he would have attacked Iran despite the impact on the midterm elections.
"If we hadn't done Iran, you would be cruising to midterms victory right now," Ingraham told Trump, to which Trump replied "supposing we were cruising, and all of a sudden Iran has a nuclear weapon. They would use it."
He added that if Iran had a nuclear weapon, the Islamic Republic would "wipe out" Israel and the Middle East, and start hitting U.S. cities.
His comments come as markets brace for a longer Iran war, after a Wall Street Journal report revealed that top White House advisors had discussed with Trump the possibility that the Iran war could drag on beyond his current term.