Trump: We now control Iran's skies

US President Donald Trump spoke on Tuesday in the tone of a participant in the Israeli war on Iran, claiming that the United States completely controls Iranian airspace.

President Trump tweeted on Tuesday on his social media site, Truth Social: “We now have total and complete control of the skies over Iran. Iran had good air tracking and other defense equipment, plenty of it, but it doesn’t compare to American-made, designed, and manufactured equipment. No one does it better than the United States of America.”

President Trump said early Tuesday morning that he wants a "real end" to the Iranian nuclear problem, with Tehran "completely" abandoning its enrichment activities. He added that he is not only working for a ceasefire to end the war between Iran and Israel, which has claimed the lives of at least 20 people in Israel and hundreds in Iran as it enters its fifth day.

"I didn't say I was seeking a ceasefire," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One after cutting short his participation in the G7 summit in Canada.

Earlier, the president said on his Truth Social platform that French President Emmanuel Macron "wrongly said I left the G7 summit in Canada to return to Washington to work on a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Wrong! He has no idea why I'm heading to Washington now, but it certainly has nothing to do with the ceasefire. It's much bigger than that."

Trump predicted that Israel would not slow down its attack on Iran, which has largely destroyed the Islamic Republic's military leadership and severely damaged its controversial nuclear program. "You'll find out in the next couple of days. You'll find out. Nobody's slowed down yet," he said, hours after issuing an ominous warning that all of Tehran's roughly 10 million residents should "evacuate immediately."

When asked about this warning aboard Air Force One on Tuesday morning, Trump said he wanted "people to be safe," without offering any further explanation. On Monday, Israel warned some 300,000 residents of a central area of Tehran to evacuate, in anticipation of attacks in the region.