President Donald Trump has likened recent U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, saying the attack was decisive and set Iran’s nuclear program back by decades.
Speaking at the NATO summit, Trump said, “That hit ended the war. 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 that with the war.”
The U.S. carried out strikes over the weekend targeting three nuclear sites in Iran. Trump declared the mission a success, claiming it wiped out Iran’s nuclear capabilities. “It obliterated Tehran’s nuclear program,” he said.
But a leaked early intelligence report suggests otherwise. The assessment reportedly concluded that the strikes did not destroy Iran’s nuclear program.
Trump brushed off those findings, saying the intelligence was “very inconclusive” and stood by his version of events.
Iran has confirmed that its nuclear facilities were heavily damaged but has not said the program was stopped.
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