We have a lot of things to talk about, but there's not much I can say to you about it. It's one of those little problems in life.

We had some very good results today in Iran. Very strong results — militarily results.

We're talking to countries about policing the straits. It would be nice to have other countries policing with us. We'll help and work with them.

Militarily, as far as I'm concerned, we've essentially defeated Iran.

I guess they can have a little bit of fight back, but not much.

Militarily, it's been amazing.

We attacked Kharg Island and we left just one little area standing. The standing part is where they have the pipes, where the oil pipes come in.

And we can do that on five minutes' notice. We have it all locked, but I chose not to do it yet. We'll see what happens.

They want to negotiate. They want to negotiate badly. I don't think they're ready, just from what I'm hearing.

They want to negotiate badly. But I don't think they're ready to do what they have to do.

I think they'll be ready at some point.

We are talking to other countries about working with us for the policing of the Strait of Hormuz.

And I think we're getting good response. If we do, that's great, and if we don't, that's great, too.

As an example, in many cases, they're NATO countries. We're always there for NATO. We're helping them with Ukraine. It's got an ocean in between us. It doesn't affect us, but we've helped them.

It will be interesting to see what country wouldn't help us with a very small endeavor, which is just keeping the strait open. That, by comparison, is small because Iran has very little firepower left.

Their missiles are down to a low number. You see they're shooting very few of them. You know why? Because they don't have very many of them. And because we've decimated their manufacturing capability.

Likewise, the drones are way down. They're down to about 20 percent of what they had.

Maybe they will. Maybe they won't.

You know, there's some other deeper reasons why they may not. They should come in, in my opinion.

Whether we get support or not—but I can say this, and I said it to them (the UK): we will remember.

Some of the countries have minesweepers.

Iran's military is defeated, but all you need is a few people dropping mines here and there and, you know, you louse it up.

I'm demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory because it is their territory. It's the place from which they get their energy. And they should come and they should help us protect it.

They use AI. They said they attacked the USS Abraham Lincoln, one of the largest ships in the world, an aircraft carrier, and they show pictures of it burning. It was never attacked. It was never burning.

The Wall Street Journal put out a false story that five of our big, beautiful tankers that we feed the planes with the gas, the jet fuel, and thousands of gallons of gasoline were all essentially destroyed.

They weren't destroyed at all. In fact, four of them weren't. A slight damage, and it'll be back in the air soon.

But if you read the Wall Street Journal, it's like they were totally decimated and destroyed, like Iran has been.

The "kamikaze boats" don't exist. They're fake. And you can almost see that when you look at them.

If they did exist, we'd hit them just like we hit other boats all over the place. But they don't exist. In fact, some of the people say, "Where are the boats?"

How come nobody's seen the boats? You know why? Because it's AI-generated. It's fake. I didn't realize this before we started, but Iran is known for a lot of fake news, and they deal with our fake news.

I actually think it's pretty criminal because our media companies, who have no credibility whatsoever, are putting out information that they know is false.

It's a very dangerous thing for the country. I think they could be in serious jeopardy.

They're working with us.

Other fake news — they were saying, "Oh, did I have an argument with Bibi?" No, we really get along well.

He would tell you we're leading the whole thing. He can say it or not say it. It doesn't matter.

The main thing is to get it done. But my relationship with Bibi Netanyahu is, I would say, extraordinary, actually.

You're dealing with people that are violent and vicious. And that's the leadership and the people right under them.

A week ago and two weeks ago, they killed 32,000 protesters. At least we think the number is much higher than that.

They shot and killed 32,000 protesters who were greatly enthusiastic and wanted to see a change because the people running the country has destroyed it.

Now they put out a notice two days ago that we're going to shoot and kill any protester.

The protesters have no guns. So I can fully understand why they're not doing it.

One other thing that was AI-generated. They showed about 250,000 people in a square saying how much they love Khamenei, which is totally AI-generated.

It never took place. The media knew it didn't take place, but they built it up like they have great support. They don't have support.

That whole rally that they had 3-4 days ago was fake, it was AI-generated. AI can be very dangerous. We have to be very careful with it.

I was actually surprised to see the rally because I know how much the people hate this leadership. I found out today, it was a totally AI-generated fake news story put out by news organizations in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Honestly, they really shouldn't be allowed to do that.

We're talking to them.

But I don't think they're ready. But they're getting pretty close.

I don't know that I want to make a deal.

Nobody even knows who you're dealing with because most of their leadership has been killed. So I don't even know that we want to make a deal.

They want to make a deal badly, yes.