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Gen. Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, claimed that the United States was making "substantial progress towards destroying" the Iranian navy.
"CENTCOM continues to make progress across the southern flank. To date, they've struck more than 5,000 targets," Caine told reporters via the Post. "US Strategic Command bombers recently dropped dozens of 2,000-pound GPX [ground-penetrating X-ray) penetrating weapons on deeply buried missile launchers across the southern flank."
Caine said that ballistic missile attacks launched by Iran have decreased 90%, while one-way attack drone strikes have dropped 83% since Operation Epic Fury was launched 11 days ago.
"We're making substantial progress towards destroying the navy. In the first ten days of the conflict ... more than 50 Iranian naval ships [have been sunk]," he said.
"Third, we've begun to target Iran's military and industrial complex again, focusing on centers of gravity to get upstream of the shooters out in the field in order to deny them the ability to continue to generate those one-way attack drones," Caine added.
President Donald Trump claimed that he was told that the Iranian government wants "to talk badly" about ending its war with the United States and Israel, which entered its 11th consecutive day since Trump announced the launch of Operation Epic Fury and the killing of former Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on February 28.
“It’s possible, depends on what terms, possible, only possible,” Trump told Yingst on Air Force One during a flight from Washington, D.C., to Miami, Florida. “You know, we sort of don’t have to speak anymore, you know, if you really think about it, but it’s possible.”