Former US President and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stated on Friday (Oct. 4) that Israel should strike Iran’s nuclear facilities in retaliation to the Islamic Republic’s recent missile barrage.
Speaking at a campaign event in North Carolina, Trump referred to a question posed to President Joe Biden this week about the possibility of Israel targeting Iran’s nuclear program.
“They asked him, what do you think about Iran, would you hit Iran? And he goes, ‘As long as they don’t hit the nuclear stuff.’ That’s the thing you want to hit, right?” Trump said.
‘The answer is no’
On Wednesday, Biden was asked whether he would support strikes against Iranian nuclear sites and the US president told reporters: “The answer is no.” Two days later, Trump highlighted at his campaign event that nuclear weapons were the biggest risk.
“They asked him (President Biden) What do you think about, what do you think about Iran? Would you hit Iran? And he goes, ‘As long as they don’t hit the nuclear stuff.’ That’s the thing you want to hit, right? I said I think he’s got that one wrong. Isn’t that what you’re supposed to hit? I mean, it’s the biggest risk we have, nuclear weapons, the power of nuclear weapons, the power of weaponry,” Trump said.
“You know, I rebuilt the entire military jets, everything I built it including nuclear and I hated to build a nuclear but I got to know firsthand the power of that stuff. And I’ll tell you what, we have to be totally prepared. We have to be absolutely prepared,” he added.
Trump has spoken little about the recent escalation in tensions in West Asia since the Israel-Hamas war broke out on October 7 last year.
Earlier this week, Trump issued a scathing statement, holding Biden and Vice President and current Democratic candidate Kamala Harris responsible for the crisis.
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Source: Wion
