Florida, Nov. 1 -- US President Donald Trump on Saturday (local time), during a Halloween event at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, made a high-stakes statement on the ongoing military campaign against Iran's strategic and nuclear infrastructure.

Targeting Tehran's nuclear ambitions and air defence networks, Trump asserted that American operations have already crippled the core of Iran's nuclear programme and military assets, leaving only a couple of targets, including key underground facilities like "Pickaxe Mountain", which the US military could eliminate at short notice.

"We've knocked out their nuclear. We still have to take care of, I would say, one or two sites, but we can do that in ten minutes," Trump said.

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