A U.S. ambassador warned that the Iran conflict could continue for another year amid threats of new strikes

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Mike Waltz's assessment, in a Financial Times interview published Friday, was that the war might still be underway a year from now if Washington had not met its aims. Those aims include securing Iran's highly enriched uranium and reaching an agreement on Iran's domestic enrichment program. Waltz also characterized the administration's economic pressure campaign as “tightening.” He said President Donald Trump and the U.S. Navy could keep the blockade of Iranian ports in place for the foreseeable future. The remarks point to a potentially prolonged conflict beyond Trump's initial four-to-five-week estimate; Waltz did not say the war would necessarily last a year, but tied that possibility to whether U.S. objectives were achieved.