President Donald Trump told Axios‘ Barak Ravid in a brief telephone interview Wednesday that the war would end soon because there is almost nothing left to target.

“Little this and that … Any time I want it to end, it will end,” Trump said, in an interview whose duration was about five minutes.

This puts Trump at odds with both U.S. and Israeli officials, who estimate that two more weeks of bombing are needed to complete the mission, though no internal instructions have been issued about a specific timetable. Trump had indicated that the operation would take four to five weeks.

Israel’s defense minister, Israel Katz, suggested there would be no timetable — the campaign would last as long as it took to ensure Israel’s goals are achieved.

The operation will continue “without any time limit, for as long as necessary, until we achieve all the objectives and decisively win the campaign,” he said Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Iran’s activity in the Strait of Hormuz has raised concerns. The United States has refused requests to escort vessels through the strait, which is the lane through which about 20 percent of the world’s oil ships, saying the threat level of attacks is too high. Meanwhile, Iran has been laying mines in the strait. The U.S. assessed that the number of mines is small, and Trump confirmed in his phone call with Ravid that it had destroyed 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels, disrupting Iran’s plans. Iran has threatened to interfere with shipping in the strait as a negotiating tactic in the past.

Adm. Brad Cooper, the commander of U.S. Central Command, posted a video message Wednesday in which he explained the U.S. objective regarding the Strait of Hormuz: to nullify Iran’s ability to project power over the strait and disrupt shipping.

“U.S. forces continue delivering devastating combat power against the Iranian regime. U.S. combat power is building, Iran’s combat power is declining,” Cooper said, adding that Iran’s attacks have dropped sharply following the intense joint U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign targeting military sites in Iran.

Trump projected a positive tone, saying in his interview that the campaign has performed better than expected.

“The war is going great. We are way ahead of the timetable. We have done more damage than we thought possible, even in the original six-week period,” he said.

The president condemned Iran for attacking Gulf countries — not only the U.S. and Israel — and said they would suffer the consequences.

“They were after the rest of the Middle East,” he said. “They are paying for 47 years of death and destruction they caused. This is payback. They will not get off that easy.”

While Trump has signaled mixed messaging on the duration of the war, he has generally predicted a four-week timetable, with several main objectives he expects to achieve during that timeframe: completely destroy Iran’s missile and naval capabilities, sever its relationships with its proxy terror groups distributed throughout the Middle East and ensure it never builds a nuclear weapon.