Expert Analysis Following Trump's Signal that War Will End
US President Donald Trump has signalled that the war against Iran is nearly complete. International relations expert Teuku Rezasyah believes Iran will not trust Trump’s statement.
Rezasyah assessed that Trump wants to position himself as the party resolving the conflict. He argued this could enhance Trump’s credibility among the American public. “If the international public accepts this idea, then Donald Trump’s credibility increases, whilst simultaneously restoring his credibility domestically, which has been under scrutiny. Consequently, the Republican Party remains in a strong position and will not be undermined in the November mid-term elections,” Rezasyah told journalists on Thursday (12 March 2026).
Rezasyah is convinced Iran will not believe what Trump has stated. This is because numerous agreements with Iran have consistently been violated by the United States. “For Iran, President Trump’s idea above cannot be trusted. Because since Trump became President, Iran’s peace efforts have been violated three times by the United States through numerous bombing operations, resulting in the deaths of large numbers of Iranian citizens,” he said.
“Most recently, the bombing on 28 February killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, which the Iranian government and people view as an extraordinary crime under International Law and a violation of Iran’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” he added.
Rezasyah stated that the Iranian government and citizens have labelled Trump as a hypocritical leader who cannot be trusted. In this regard, he is convinced that what Trump has said is certainly untrue. “Even if the two countries enter into dialogue, whatever results will be denied by the United States itself. Should the United States and Iran reach an agreed settlement, the United States will cancel it again or undermine it,” he said.
Furthermore, he noted that Iran under the leadership of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei is currently focused on proving to the world its consistency in maintaining its identity as a sovereign nation, in accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter. “Accepting an American offer could establish a bad precedent in International Law, where a nation that violates the UN Charter has the potential to determine the direction of peace from various war crimes and extraordinary human rights violations that it has committed whilst flouting international law,” he said.
Trump’s Statement
US President Donald Trump stated that the war against Iran is currently “very much concluded”. Trump noted that Washington moved far faster than initially estimated, with the war expected to last four to five weeks.
Trump’s latest statement, as reported by Reuters on Tuesday (10 March 2026), was made in a telephone interview with CBS News on Monday (9 March) evening local time. The United States and Israel launched a large-scale attack against Iran on 28 February, which triggered an escalation of the conflict in the Middle East region.
“I think the war is very much concluded, almost entirely,” Trump said, speaking to CBS News in a telephone interview from his golf club in Doral, Florida. “They (Iran) do not have a navy, they have no communications, they do not have an air force. Their missiles are running low. Their drones have been destroyed everywhere, including their drone manufacturing plants,” Trump claimed in the interview.
US military officials previously stated that their forces had attacked more than 3,000 targets in Iran during the first week of military operations, named “Operation Epic Fury”. “If you look, they do not have anything left. There is nothing left in terms of their military,” Trump said whilst speaking to CBS News journalist Weijia Jiang in the telephone interview.
Furthermore, Trump also noted that the US was “very far” ahead of the initial estimate for the war’s duration, which Trump himself had previously estimated would last 4-5 weeks. “We are very far ahead of schedule,” he stated.