“We are going to beat the f***ing s*** out of them,” US President Donald Trump told Fox News Wednesday morning. Trump had attributed last week’s pause to a request from Iran because “they asked us very nicely” and wanted talks. Tehran could not consider itself victorious if the strait returned to its prewar status, the deputy foreign minister said. Iranian domestically-built Zolfaghar, left, and Zolfaghar Bassir missiles are displayed by the armed forces in a temporary exhibition at Azadi (Freedom) square in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday. From Tehran’s perspective, Washington’s pause in attacks on Iran reflects “strategic weakness rather than restraint,” Citrinowicz wrote.