In separate interviews airing Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered strikingly similar assessments of the status of the conflict with Iran.

Speaking to Sharyl Attkisson on her “Full Measure” program, Trump declared that Iran is “militarily defeated,” even as he acknowledged that the conflict is not yet fully resolved.

“They’re militarily defeated in their own minds. Maybe they don’t know that, but I think they do, because they deal with them,” Trump said. “We cannot ever let Iran have a nuclear weapon, but they are militarily defeated. They have no navy, they have no air force, they have no anti-aircraft weaponry, they have no radar. They have no leaders. Their leaders are gone. The first set, the A team is gone, the B team is gone, and part of the C team is gone.”

Trump also highlighted the importance of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, citing his decision to terminate the Iran nuclear deal and the successful attack on Iran’s nuclear sites eight months ago.

“If we didn’t do that, they would have already blown up Israel. In my opinion, Israel would have been blown up with a nuclear weapon,” Trump said. “If I didn’t terminate the Iran nuclear deal, they would have had it, and they would have used it on Israel and the Middle East right now and maybe beyond.”

When asked about the status of the war and the removal of nuclear materials from Iran, Trump said, “No, I didn’t say that. I said they are defeated, but that doesn’t mean they’re done. We could go in for two more weeks and do every single target. We have certain targets that we wanted, and we’ve done probably 70% of them, but we have other targets that we could conceivably hit, but even if we didn’t do that, there would just be final touches.”

Meanwhile, in an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Netanyahu struck a similar tone, arguing that the war with Iran is “not over” due to the ongoing presence of highly enriched uranium and other challenges.

“I think it accomplished a great deal. But it’s not over, because there’s still nuclear material, enriched uranium, that has to be taken out of Iran,” Netanyahu said. “There is still enrichment sites that have to be dismantled. There are still proxies that Iran supports. There are ballistic missiles that they still want to produce.”

When pressed on how the highly enriched uranium would be removed from Iran, Netanyahu suggested that it could be done physically with an agreement in place, citing assurances from Trump.

“President Trump has said to me, ‘I want to go in there,’ and I think it can be done physically. That’s not the problem,” Netanyahu said. “If you have an agreement and you go in and you take it out, why not? That’s the best way.”

However, the Israeli leader repeatedly dodged questions about potential military options and the timeline for achieving Iran’s disarmament, emphasizing the importance of the mission without providing specifics.

“You’re going to ask me these questions. I’m going to dodge them because I’m not going to talk about our military possibilities, plans or anything of the kind,” Netanyahu said. “I’m not going to give a timetable to it, but I’m going to say that’s a terrifically important mission.”

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