US Vice President JD Vance spoke about war against Iran during an interview with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson.
Vance said that while the US has achieved most of its military objectives, US President Donald Trump plans to continue the war "for a little while longer" to ensure that the Iranian government is severely hampered.
"The president is going to continue for a little while longer to make sure that once we leave, we don't have to do this again for a very, very long time," Vance said.
"We need to neutralize them (the Iranian government) for a very, very long time, and that's the goal."
Vance acknowledged that fuel prices have increased as a result of the conflict, but said they will decrease soon.
"This is a very, very temporary reaction to what will ultimately be a short-term conflict."
"I think the president has been very clear on this: We are not interested in staying in Iran after a year, after two years," Vance said.
"We're taking care of business, we'll be out of there soon, and gas prices will go down again."
Earlier, Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had located and dismantled 120 cluster bombs in the country's southern Fars province.
The munitions were dropped during US-Israeli strikes several days ago on the village of Kafri and surrounding areas, Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency quoted the deputy director of public relations for the IRGC in Fars as saying.
Tehran has had another night of severe attacks.
“I saw that right below my window, the glass above my head was shaking violently, so I got up and went to the living room in case it broke and fell on me,” a man in his twenties in Tehran tells me.
"It didn't end there and the attacks got worse. My family got so scared that everyone screamed and ran out of the house."
A man in his thirties says: “I still want it to continue until the clerics leave. I have no problem with that. I better see it through now that we’ve come this far.”
It's been a month since the war began and some are getting used to the noise of the attacks.
"I heard the strikes last night, but I was so tired that I fell back to sleep. I went out to the park for a morning walk and even got a coffee to take with me," says a woman in her twenties in Tehran.
But with the bombings continuing, more people have decided to leave the capital.
"I decided to go to northern Iran. It's very relaxed and peaceful here. Compared to Tehran, it's like there's no war," says a woman in her twenties.