Trump: Israel Sent Agents to Fordow, Confirmed ‘Total Obliteration’

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested that Israel sent agents to Iran’s Fordo nuclear site after US struck it earlier this week, insisting the attack was a success and warning that he was willing to strike again if Iran tried to revive its enrichment program.

“You know they have guys that go in there after the hit, and they said it was total obliteration,” Trump told reporters at the NATO summit in The Hague, speaking about the bombing of Fordo.

“Israel is doing a report on it now, I understand, and I was told that they said it was total obliteration. I believe it was total obliteration, and I believe they didn’t have a chance to get anything out because we acted fast.”

US President Donald Trump says he will strike Iran again if it tries to restart its nuclear enrichment program, but he’s sure it won’t be necessary.

Asked by a reporter if the US would carry out more attacks if Tehran rebuilds its uranium enrichment facilities, Trump said, “Sure. But I’m not going to have to worry about that. It’s gone for years.”

Asked how long he thinks the Iranian nuclear program has been set back, Trump said: “I think it’s basically decades, because I don’t think they’ll ever do it again. I think they’ve had it. I mean, they just went through hell. They’ve had it.”

“The last thing they want to do is enrich anything right now,” added Trump. “They want to recover.”

“They’re not going to have a bomb and they’re not going to enrich,” he stressed.

Trump compared the US bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites to the nuclear weapons America dropped on Japan to end World War II: “That hit ended the war. That hit ended the war. I don’t want to use an example of Hiroshima, I don’t want to use an example of Nagasaki, but that was essentially the same thing that ended that war. This ended that, this ended that war. If we didn’t take that out, they would have been fighting right now.”

“I think we’ll end up having somewhat of a relationship with Iran,” he added.

Trump hails ceasefire, praises Israel for standing down

Trump also applauded the ceasefire that has stopped the fighting so far, and said another could be on the way in Gaza.

The ceasefire that Israel and Iran agreed to was “a very equal agreement,” said Trump. “They both said, ‘That’s enough.'”

“We had a tremendous victory, a tremendous hit,” he added.

“We had a tremendous victory, a tremendous hit,” said Trump. “Israel got hit very hard, especially the last couple of days. Israel was hit really hard. Those ballistic missiles, boy they took out a lot of buildings.”

“And they’ve been great,” he said, “Bibi Netanyahu should be very proud of himself.”

After blasting Israel Tuesday for striking Iran in response to missile fire after the ceasefire was announced, Trump praised Israel for scaling back its planned attack.

“I was so proud of them,” he said. “It was a great thing.”

Trump added that “technically they were right,” referring to Israel’s claims that Iran had violated the ceasefire by firing missiles after the 7 a.m. start of the truce. “It was a little bit of a violation.”

Trump reports ‘great progress’ toward Gaza ceasefire

Trump also said Wednesday that there is “great progress” on reaching a ceasefire deal in the Gaza Strip.

“I think that because of this attack that we made [in Iran]. I think we’re going to have some very good news… Gaza is very close,” he asserted.