URGENT – POL Esper says US isn’t looking ‘to start a war with Iran, but we are prepared to finish one’

(CNN) — US Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Tuesday that although the US is not seeking a war with Iran, it is “prepared to finish one. “”We are not looking to start a war with Iran, but we are prepared to finish one,” Esper told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.