Donald Trump said "the easiest victory" would have been invading Iran

According to Ben MacIntyre’s book Redwood, Donald Trump, now US president, said in a 1980 interview with columnist Rona Barrett that the United States should invade Iran during the Tehran embassy hostage crisis. Speaking about the interior of one of his buildings, Trump argued that military action would succeed with little difficulty and would improve the country’s standing and oil wealth, the book says. No invasion occurred. The remark appears in a Cold War history centered on KGB officer Valdimir Kuzichkin and his relationship with MI6’s Ian McCredie, which also examines Iran’s revolutionary politics and attacks by the US and Israel that the review describes as aimed at ending Iran’s nuclear weapons effort and its Islamic government.