US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Iran must never be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon, crediting last year’s US strikes with halting Tehran’s atomic program just before completion, and claiming: “We now control the Strait of Hormuz,” Anadolu reports. Speaking in a phone interview published Wednesday, Trump said: “If we didn’t do it, Iran would have … a nuclear weapon.” “If we didn’t send in the B-2 bombers a year ago to blow up their nuclear capacity, you know … they were two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon,” he said. Warning of catastrophic consequences, Trump argued that if Iran had “a nuclear weapon, Israel would be gone. The Middle East would be gone, and they would be […]
