Donald Trump compares US strikes about Iran with atomic bombs in Hiroshima

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Donald Trump compared the US strikes on the nuclear institutions of Iran with the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II when he released a leak of intelligence that pointed out that the effects were limited.

The attack of the weekend as “triggered” the locations said that the US President said that he had brought the conflict between Iran and Iraq into a quick conclusion and compared the strikes with atomic bombs in 1945.

“I don’t want to use an example for Hiroshima, I don’t want to use an example for Nagasaki, but that was essentially the same – that ended a war,” said Trump on Wednesday at a NATO summit in the Hague.

“This ended (the Israel-Iran) war. If we did not take out the nuclear institutions, they would struggle now,” he added.

Trump said that the secret services were leaked on Tuesday, which said that the US strikes had only returned the Iranian nuclear program by a few months.

He did not fully determine the damage at the locations in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan until Israel had made an assessment.

Trump said that the US Defense Intelligence Agency, who put together the report on Fordow, “really does not know about the damage” and added: “I think Israel will tell us soon.”

The IDF spokesman Effie Defrin said on Wednesday: “I can say here, the assessment is that we have severely damaged the nuclear program and pushed it back for years.”

Trump, Minister of Defense Pete Hegseth and Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, insisted that Fordow was “wiped out”. At the NATO summit, the US President said that Iran’s nuclear program was covered “for decades”.

But Dan Caine, chairman of the US heads of staff, was more measured on Sunday and said that the first evaluation suggested that the three locations “had suffered extremely serious damage and destruction”, which would “take some time”.

Hegseth said that the Pentagon invests the leak of the report next to the FBI.

Trump’s appearance at the NATO summit takes place one day after a preliminary ceasefire between Iran and Israel after 12 days of the war.

The president had scolded both sides on Tuesday due to alleged violations of the US ceasefire and said he was “really unhappy” with Israel, especially with Israel.

But in the Hague he said that he was “so proud” in Israel because he was limited and added to his retaliation of an alleged violation of the ceasefire by Tehran: “(Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu should be very proud of himself.”

Trump said that he believed that the Iranian stock of uranium was affected by the US strikes at a 60 percent purity.

“I think they had no chance of getting something (from the facilities). It is very difficult to remove this type of material,” he said.

“I think we will have a kind of relationship with Iran in the end,” added the US President and said: “The last” wants to be Tehran to continue his nuclear enrichment program.

When asked whether the United States could go on Iran again if the Islamic Republic had developed its nuclear infrastructure in the future, Trump said: “Sure.”