As the war in the Middle East intensifies, President Donald Trump said that the United States has “the capability to go far longer" than its projected four-to-five-week time frame for its military operations against Iran.

 

Trump said that America has a “virtually unlimited supply” of munitions to use as the war with Iran rages.

 

Trump, writing on his Truth Social website, said: “The United States Munitions Stockpiles have, at the medium and upper medium grade, never been higher or better - As was stated to me today, we have a virtually unlimited supply of these weapons.”

 

He added: “Wars can be fought ‘forever,’ and very successfully, using just these supplies.”

 

He said “additional high grade weaponry” is “stored for us in outlying countries.”

 

Trump did not elaborate, but his post comes as analysts begin raising concerns about the number of munitions the US has as the campaign continues — particularly air defense missiles.

 

Across Tehran, the sound of explosions rang out through the night and into the early morning hours Tuesday, as the US and Israel have continued to pound Iran since killing its Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday.

 

Tehran and its allies have hit back against Israel, neighboring Gulf states, and targets critical to the world’s production of oil and natural gas.

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu late Monday defended the decision to go to war, contending in an interview on Fox News Channel’s "Hannity" that Iran was rebuilding “new sites, new places” that would make “their ballistic missile program and their atomic bomb program immune within months."