Trump urges Iran to 'do the smart thing'
U.S. President Donald Trump urged Iran Tuesday to "do the smart thing" and make a deal, saying even as a Middle East ceasefire teetered that he did not want to kill more Iranians.
"They should do the smart thing, because we don't want to go in and kill people. Really don't," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked about Iran. "I don't want to, it's too tough."
He also sought to minimize the war with Iran, calling it "a little skirmish."
"We're in a little skirmish military. I call it a skirmish, because Iran has no chance. They never did. They know it," Trump said during an Oval Office event on physical fitness among American kids.
Trump often touts the conflict as a resounding success, insisting for example that Iran's navy has been destroyed.
He sometimes openly calls it a war but more often tries to minimize it because the war is unpopular at home.
On Monday he called it a "mini-war."
And last month he described U.S. military operations against Iran as "a little excursion."
Source: Agence France Presse
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