Trump threatens Iran with a new attack if it restarts its nuclear program

New York. Donald Trump warned this Wednesday that the U.S. will attack Iran again if the Islamic Republic restarts its nuclear program. When answering a corresponding question during a press conference at the NATO summit in The Hague, the U.S. president stated that “the last thing they want to do right now” in the Persian country “is to enrich anything: they want to recover.” “And we will not let that happen, in the first place, militarily, we will not let them,” he asserted.

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Likewise, Trump assured that Tehran “will not build bombs for a very long time”, possibly “decades”, because all its nuclear facilities were “totally” destroyed in the recent US bombing and it would be very difficult and costly to get them up and running again. “There could come a day in the future and someone else, taking our place, says: ‘Don’t do it’. […] But [for now] they are not going to have a bomb and they are not going to enrich [uranium]”, he predicted. “I think it was total destruction. They didn’t have a chance to take anything out, because we acted quickly. It’s difficult to remove that type of material, it’s very hard and very dangerous,” he added, reiterating that Washington will not allow Tehran to continue enriching uranium. Despite the White House boasting of the “total annihilation” of Iran’s nuclear program, a preliminary assessment by U.S. intelligence concluded that U.S. attacks on the country’s nuclear facilities failed to destroy the core components of its atomic program and likely only delayed it by about six months. Trump reacted to these leaks in the American press by sharing on Truth Social previous statements from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, in which he assured that the US bombing “nullified Iran’s ability to create nuclear weapons”.