{"id":32525,"date":"2025-06-25T09:35:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T09:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=32525"},"modified":"2025-06-25T09:35:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T09:35:56","slug":"donald-trump-compares-us-strikes-on-iran-to-atomic-bombing-of-hiroshima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=32525","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump compares US strikes on Iran to atomic bombing of Hiroshima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\">Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington, business and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=500be251-485e-43d5-bbaf-2e2308d016e2&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Donald Trump has compared the US strikes on Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities to the second world war bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as he dismissed an intelligence leak that suggested the impact was limited.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the weekend\u2019s assault as \u201cobliterating\u201d the sites, the US president said that it had brought the conflict between Iran and Iraq to a swift conclusion and likened the strikes to nuclear bombs dropped on Japan in 1945.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to use an example of Hiroshima, I don\u2019t want to use an example of Nagasaki, but that was essentially the same thing \u2014 that ended a war,\u201d Trump said at a Nato summit in The Hague on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis ended, [the Israel-Iran] war. If we didn\u2019t take [out the nuclear facilities], they would be fighting right now,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that the intelligence leaked on Tuesday, which said the US strikes had only set back Iran\u2019s nuclear programme by a few months, was inconclusive.<\/p>\n<p>He added the damage to the sites at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan could not be fully ascertained until Israel delivered an assessment.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that the US Defense Intelligence Agency, which put together the report on Fordow, \u201creally don\u2019t know\u201d about the damage, adding: \u201cI think Israel is going to be telling us very soon.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>IDF spokesperson Effie Defrin said on Wednesday: \u201cI can say here, the assessment is that we severely damaged the nuclear programme, and pushed it back years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s appearance at the Nato summit comes a day after a tentative ceasefire between Iran and Israel took hold following 12 days of war. <\/p>\n<p>The president had scolded both sides on Tuesday for alleged breaches of the US-brokered truce, saying he was \u201creally unhappy\u201d with Israel in particular.<\/p>\n<p>But in The Hague, he said he was \u201cso proud\u201d of Israel for limiting its retaliation to an alleged breach of the ceasefire by Tehran, adding: \u201c[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu should be very proud of himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that he believed that Iran\u2019s stockpile of uranium enriched to 60 per cent purity would have been impacted by the US strikes at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe they didn\u2019t have a chance to get anything out [of the facilities]\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009It\u2019s very hard to remove that kind of material,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019ll end up having somewhat of a relationship with Iran,\u201d the US president added, saying \u201cthe last thing\u201d Tehran wants is to continue with its nuclear enrichment programme.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the US could strike Iran again if the Islamic republic redeveloped its nuclear infrastructure in the future, Trump said: \u201cSure.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/500be251-485e-43d5-bbaf-2e2308d016e2\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}