APTrump remained adamant too that Iran wasn鈥檛 able to remove the uranium being enriched at the sites ahead of the strikes.
In a controversial move, President Donald Trump has drawn comparisons between his strikes on Iran over the weekend and the US use of nuclear bombs in Japan, saying both were used to successfully end wars. Trump compared his strikes on Iran鈥檚 nuclear facilities to the US dropping atomic bombs on Japan in WWII 鈥 as he insisted the devastation inflicted during both conflicts ended the wars.”I don’t want to use an example of Hiroshima, I don’t want to use an example of Nagasaki, but that was essentially the same thing. That ended that war. This ended the war,” Trump said. Trump argued that Iran’s nuclear program had been set back “basically decades, because I don’t think they’ll ever do it again” and he turned to top advisers to reinforce that message. He maintained that his surprise strikes on Tehran forced Iran and Israel into entering a ceasefire agreement after 12 days of war.ALSO READ: NATO chief dubs Trump ‘daddy’ as US President likens Israel-Iran conflict to ‘two kids in school yard’鈥淗ad we not succeeded with that hit, that hit ended the war,鈥 Trump said of his decision to drop on three Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend. Broadly, he has argued that the strikes were much more successful than has so far been reported in the U.S. media.Trump plays down intelligence reportsNot only did the commander-in-chief compare the impact of American strikes on Iranian nuclear sites to the end of World War Two, he argued that the damage was severe even though available intelligence reports were inconclusive, according to Reuters. He pushed back on a leaked intelligence report that said US strikes on Iran only set its nuclear programme back by a few months. Speaking at a Nato summit in The Hague on Wednesday, Trump said the strikes led to the “virtual obliteration” of Iran’s nuclear capabilities and set its atomic programme back “by decades”.Live EventsMultiple media outlets reported that it had been revealed the US Defense Intelligence Agency had assessed that the strikes had set back Iran’s nuclear program by just a few months. But Trump and his top officials are saying it had been obliterated.ALSO READ: Horrifying ‘killer bees’ spreading across 13 US states and can sting thousands of times in short period “The intelligence was … very inconclusive,” Trump told reporters while meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte ahead of a summit in The Hague. “The intelligence says, ‘We don’t know, it could have been very severe.’ That’s what the intelligence says. So I guess that’s correct, but I think we can take the ‘we don’t know’. It was very severe. It was obliteration,” Trump added.Trump remained adamant too that Iran wasn鈥檛 able to remove the uranium being enriched at the sites ahead of the strikes.鈥淭hey didn鈥檛 have a chance to get anything out because we acted fast. If it would have taken two weeks, maybe. But it鈥檚 very hard to remove that kind of material, very hard and very dangerous for them to remove it,鈥 Trump said.ALSO READ: Jeff Bezos-Lauren Sanchez has an unusual request for the guests ahead of their high-profile wedding鈥淧lus they knew we were coming, and if they know we鈥檙e coming, they鈥檙e not going to be down there.鈥滺e argued the attacks had set Iran鈥檚 nuclear ambitions back decades because 鈥渢hey鈥檒l ever do it again.鈥 鈥淭hey just went through hell. I think they鈥檝e had it. The last thing they want to do is enrich,鈥 he said.Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who both also cast doubt on the reliability of the DIA assessment.”When you actually look at the report – by the way, it was a top secret report – it was preliminary, it was low-confidence,” Hegseth said. “This is a political motive here.”He said the FBI was investigating a potential leak. Rubio suggested that those responsible for sharing the report had mischaracterized it, saying: “This is the game they play.” All three men criticized media reports about the intelligence assessment.(With inputs from agencies)(You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel)
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