The United States (U.S.) President Donald Trump compared the recent U.S. air strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities to the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II.
Speaking in The Hague, Trump said: “They spent trillions of dollars trying to achieve this result, but they didn’t succeed. We did it and now we are getting along with them pretty well. But if we hadn’t succeeded in this attack? That strike ended the war. I don’t want to use the example of Hiroshima, I don’t want to mention Nagasaki, but that was essentially the same thing that ended that war. If we hadn’t eliminated that, we would still be fighting.“
And while critics warn of the danger of escalation, Trump and his associates claim that the operation was necessary to halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions in the long run and to avoid a wider conflict in the region.
