New Delhi, Oct. 16 -- US President Donald Trump claimed that Iran's first- and second-tier leaders had been eliminated in American military strikes, questioning who Washington was negotiating with as he predicted that the conflict would end "very, very soon".

Speaking at a midterm campaign rally in Montana late Wednesday night, , according to Fox News, Trump said Iran's military capabilities had been severely weakened and declared that the country was no longer "the bully of the Middle East". He also predicted that oil prices would fall sharply once the fighting ended.

"They don't have a Navy; they don't have an air force; their army is decimated; their leaders are gone," Trump said, as per the news outlet, claiming that Iran had lost l...