President Donald Trump vows that the United States will never forget the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and suggests the country is continuing the “war on terror” 25 years later by fighting Iran, AFP reports.

During a speech commemorating the anniversary of the attacks at the Pentagon, Trump has linked the fight against Al-Qaeda launched by his Republican predecessor George W Bush to the US-Israeli war on Iran, which is now in its seventh month.

“Today we salute every member of the United States military who served in the ‘War on Terror.’ It is a war on sick, horrible terror,” Trump says. “And we salute the service members working right now to ensure the world’s number one sponsor of terror, the Islamic Republic of Iran, will never ever have a nuclear weapon.”