US President Donald Trump spoke to the press on Wednesday about the conflict with Iran and shared his assessment that it will end after the US midterm elections in November.

"I think the war will end immediately after the election," the President said, explaining that Iran "can't hold out any longer."

Trump claimed that Iran is prolonging the war in an attempt to influence the upcoming elections. "They're desperate to try and affect the election so that we could get a nice, weak group of people in there and leave them alone and let them have their nuclear weapon."

The President also addressed the US strikes overnight, which destroyed nine Iranian ships, and warned: "You're going to see a lot more."

Trump also shared that in any future deal, the US would seek more from Iran than it did in the past: "I'm doing much more than a nuclear deal. There's a lot more than nuclear... That's 99.9, but there's going to be a lot of other things on the table that wouldn't have been on the table three months ago."