White House says Trump will ‘raise hell’ if Iran doesn’t make a deal.

President Trump expressed optimism Tuesday that a peace deal would be reached with Iran, while stressing that the war has already been won.

“This war has been won,” Mr Trump said in the Oval Office. “The only thing that likes to keep the conflict going is fake news.”

When CBS News’ Ed O’Keefe asked which Iranians the US was now negotiating with, he said, “We killed all their leadership.” “And then they met to elect new leaders and we killed them all. And now we have a new group, and we could easily do that, but let’s see what results they produce.”

“This is really a transition of power for us,” the president said. “You know, it’s a regime change, because the leaders we started with are so different from the ones that created all these problems. So it was. I guess we could say, Jason, it’s a regime change, right?”

Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, is the son of the former supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the first day of the war. While the new leader has not been seen since he was elected to succeed his father and is believed to have been injured in the same attack, there are no signs of disintegration of the Islamic Republic’s well-defined power structure, with the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard still defiant and appearing to be in control of Iran’s war efforts.

O’Keefe asked the president why he trusted Iran.

Mr Trump responded, “I don’t trust anyone.” “I do not trust U.”

O’Keefe asked why the US should bother talking to the Iranians.

“Because they’re going to make a deal,” Mr Trump said.