WASHINGTON, May 31, 2026 (Fox News) -The US president has been speaking on Fox News about his next moves on Iran.

In his remarks, Trump reflected on the US war on Iraq and said American forces shouldn’t have been in Baghdad or in Iran.

“You look at what happened with Iraq. We did so bad. It was such a foolish thing what we did. We shouldn’t have been there in the first place, by the way,” Trump said.

“We shouldn’t have been in Iran, but Iran has the capability,” he continued. “If we didn’t hit them with B-2 bombers, nine months ago, they would have a nuclear weapon right now and will be a whole different story. You probably wouldn’t have had Israel, but you probably wouldn’t have had a Middle East, and then where do they go from there?”

Trump also claimed the US has deliberately spared the Iranian military.

“Their military, we sort of left it alone because we think that their military is somewhat moderate. They have other people that aren’t moderate. We’ve taken them. We’ve taken different forms of leadership out. We’ve actually left their military alone,” he said.

Trump added that “people would be surprised to hear that because mistakes have been made in wars where you wipe out everybody and then you have a country that’s, you know, for 40 years can never rebuild”.