President Donald Trump said on June 27 that he would bomb Iran again if it enriched uranium.
“Sure. Without question,” he said in response to a question during a White House press briefing. “Absolutely.”
Trump also said he was not worried about whether Iran had secret nuclear sites.
“They’re exhausted,” he said.
“The last thing they’re thinking about is nuclear.
“I don’t believe that they’re going to go back into nuclear anytime soon. They spent over a trillion dollars on nuclear, and they never got it together, and nothing was moved from the site.”
“You have to tell the truth,” Trump said of Khamanei. “You got beat to hell.”
Trump’s remarks on Iran come almost a week after the United States bombed the Fordow, Esfahan, and Natanz nuclear sites.
Fordow is underground in a mountain range.
The United States used B-2 bombers and dropped six Massive Ordnance Penetrators, or “bunker busters,” on the site.
While Israel had caused damage to nuclear sites, only the United States had the means to destroy Fordow.
“The weapons were released on speed and on parameters,” said Joint Chiefs Chairman General Dan Caine. “The weapons all guided to their intended targets and to their intended aim points.”
Trump and his administration have been adamant that the strikes obliterated Iran’s nuclear sites.
“If you want to know what’s going on at Fordow, you better go there and get a big shovel because no one’s under there right now,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at the briefing.
On June 25, Trump said: “Great statements just came out from the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission and from Iran, as you know, that it was complete, total destruction.”
