US President Donald Trump is set to make his planned address to the American public on the month-long war in the Middle East he said could end within weeks.
Trump, whose statements on the war have swung from combative to conciliatory, had earlier said the war could be over in “two weeks, maybe three”.
“But we’re finishing the job,” he insisted.
The White House said he would give “an important update on Iran” to the nation at 9:00 pm Wednesday (0100 GMT Thursday).
His Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian meanwhile assured that the Islamic republic had the “necessary will” to end the war, provided its enemies guaranteed it would not flare up again.
The comments came as Iran’s Revolutionary Guards threatened major US tech firms from Wednesday if more Iranian leaders were killed in “targeted assassinations”.
The Guards said that 18 companies, including Intel, Tesla and Palantir, were complicit in previous killings and warned they should expect “destruction” if there were any further deaths.
But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the campaign would go on, even after insisting the conflict had “changed the face of the Middle East” and eradicated Iran’s ballistic and nuclear threats.
“We had to act, and we acted,” he said in a televised statement on the eve of the Passover holidays. “We will continue to crush the terror regime.”
