Days after the US submarine attacked and sank an Iranian warship off the Sri Lankan coast, US President Donald Trump said that the military found it ‘more fun to sink’ the Iranian ship, as he claimed that the US has sunk 46 ‘top-of-the-line’ Iranian naval ships so far. Trump recalled the conversation with the US Navy officials about the attack on the Iranian ship as he addressed a gathering of congressional Republicans in Washington DC.

As per Trump, when he asked Navy officials whether it would be a good choice to capture and reuse the Iranian ships, they replied that it would be more fun to sink the vessels.“He said, it’s more fun to sink him. They like sinking him better. They say it’s safer to sink him. I guess it’s probably true," Trump said.

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Trump's statement came after he remarked on when the US and Israel’s war in Iran will end. Trump also said that the attack on Iran has caused a severe blow to the military infrastructure.

Trump, earlier in the day, said that the US was ‘very far ahead’ of the estimated time of four to five weeks in achieving its goal, and the war is ‘pretty much’ complete. "I think the war is very complete, pretty much. They have no navy, no communications, they’ve got no Air Force," Trump told CBS News.

However, a few hours later, speaking to the Congressional Republicans at an event, Trump said the US had ‘not won enough’ and would continue to fight until Iran is ‘totally and decisively defeated’.

After Trump said that the war was likely to end soon, the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) of Iran said that if anyone decides when the war will end, it would be the IRGC. Further threatening oil supply disruption from the Strait of Hormuz, the IRGC said that it will not allow even ‘one litre of oil’ to leave the region if Israel and the US continue to attack Iran.

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Amid the escalating war in West Asia, which erupted after the US and Israel launched a coordinated military assault on Iran, alongside the Nuclear talks between Washington and Tehran. The growing tensions have elevated concerns about energy crises, as the war has effectively shut the second biggest and crucial crude oil transit medium, the Strait of Hormuz, which holds nearly 20 per cent of global energy transport.