US President Donald Trump on Thursday said American forces had systematically destroyed Iran’s radar infrastructure, forcing Tehran to repeatedly rebuild its systems.Speaking to CNBC’s Business Day, Trump elaborated on the stealth operations carried out by the US Central Command (Centcom) and said, “We did something nobody knew. Every night, we were taking ships out through the South, which is the furthest point from where they have their little weapons, and they were going along the coast with no lights for a month and a half.““We blew up Iran’s radar. They had no radar, they still don’t. We blew it up again the other night. They had a nice new radar, they were all set to go, and we blew it up last week. They have to start all over again for a third time,” he added.Trump further said American forces carried out strikes on Iran across three consecutive nights in response to attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.“They (Iranians) have some missiles left, we could wipe them out too. I hit them three times last week very hard, because they sent a drone into a ship, I hit them. Then they did something else, and I hit them. I hit them three nights in a row, the week before I hit them two nights in a row, very hard,” Trump said.“We had one night where we took 22 ships out. That’s a lot of oil. Our Navy took them out. We escorted them out, and nobody knew. The lights were off, everything was off, everything was silent,” he added.This comes a day after the US and Iran wrapped up another round of indirect talks in Doha without any visible breakthrough toward a lasting peace. Instead, the discussions focused on implementing provisions of the interim agreement announced two weeks ago.According to news agency Reuters, negotiators spent two days discussing maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and the unfreezing of Iranian funds — two key issues covered under the interim deal.The next round of talks will take place after the funeral ceremonies for Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is set to be buried on July 9, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said.Doha said the talks made “positive progress” on issues linked to the memorandum that ended the June war and were “building on the outcomes” of an earlier summit in Switzerland.Meanwhile, Trump said the two sides were making progress on possible limits to Iran’s nuclear programme — the main reason he said he launched the war alongside Israel in February. “The denuclearisation of Iran is moving along well,” he told reporters. “They’ve had very good meetings, and we’ll see.”However, Reuters, citing sources, reported that Iran’s nuclear programme was not discussed during the Doha talks, which were technical in nature. US Vice President JD Vance said the issue would be taken up in a later round. “Obviously, we’re worried about the nuclear issue, we’re going to start talking about that,” he said.
