OAN Staff Sophia Flores
9:16 AM – Monday, March 2, 2026
President Donald Trump said in an interview that he will not rule out sending U.S. troops into Iran “if necessary,” underscoring his administration’s willingness to use military strength to protect American interests.
On Monday, the president told the New York Post that Operation Epic Fury was “way ahead of schedule” in its mission to eliminate top Iranian leadership.
“We’re right on schedule, way ahead of schedule in terms of [Iranian] leadership — 49 killed — and that was, you know, going to take, we figured at least four weeks, and we did it in one day,” the president stated.
While he said troops are not needed at the moment, Trump declined to rule out deploying “boots on the ground” in the future.
“I don’t have the yips with respect to boots on the ground — like every president says, ‘There will be no boots on the ground.’ I don’t say it,” Trump stated after launching strikes Saturday to decapitate Iran’s military and political leadership in order to topple the current regime. “I say ‘probably don’t need them,’ [or] ‘if they were necessary.’”
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