BBC Expert Says Trump Is Making It Up As He Goes Along

Donald Trump is “making it up as he goes along” in Iran, according to a BBC expert.

Jeremy Bowen, the corporation’s international affairs editor, said the US president “might learn that starting wars is much easier than ending one”.

Trump has been sending mixed signals about the conflict since America and Israel began bombing Iran 11 days ago.

The exact purpose of the war remains unclear, with the president initially suggesting it was about regime change, but also claiming the country was on the verge of obtaining a nuclear war and was preparing to attack the US.

Earlier this week, Trump said: “We’ve already won in many ways, but we haven’t won enough.”

That was dismissed as “nonsense” by the Iranian regime, which remains in place despite the death of the country’s former Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

On Radio 4′s Today programme this morning, Bowen said: “It is hard to know when to stop if you don’t know exactly where you’re going.

“It is even harder to do that when the US, the world’s most powerful country, seems to have gone to war without a coherent political strategy under a president who the evidence suggests is making it up as he goes along.”

His comments come a day after he said there was “no evidence” for many of the claims Trump is making about the war.

“He’s still actually claiming erroneously that Iran was a few weeks away from getting a nuclear weapon – there’s no evidence for that,” Bowen said.

“He’s also said that Iran has Tomahawk cruise missiles that could have destroyed that girls’ school where so many were killed. There’s no evidence for that either because they’ve only sold them to Britain and Australia.”