Huckabee says Iran ‘didn’t get the full message’ of US bombing of Fordo, amid reports of rebuilding efforts

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee warns that Tehran “didn’t get the full message” following Washington’s B-2 bomber attack on the Fordo nuclear facility during the Israel-Iran war in June, as Iran appears to be attempting to rebuild the site.

“I don’t know that [Iran] ever took [US President Donald Trump] seriously until the night that the B-2 bombers went to Fordo,” Huckabee says, in an interview at an Institute for National Security Studies conference.

Answering a question about Tehran’s reported efforts to rebuild the site, Huckabee tells the interviewer: “I hope they got the message, but apparently they didn’t get the full message because, as you mentioned, they appear to be trying to reconstitute and find a new way to dig the hole deeper and secure it more.”

Asked whether the US would greenlight another Israeli offensive against Iran if Israel determined that such a move was necessary, Huckabee responds: “All I can do is point to you what [Trump] has said repeatedly, and he consistently has said Iran is never going to enrich uranium, and they’re not going to have a nuclear weapon.”

He adds that Iran renewing its ballistic missile and nuclear capabilities threatens not just Israel and the US, but also “presents a real threat to all of Europe.”

“And if the Europeans don’t understand this, then they’re even dumber than I sometimes think they are,” he adds, while noting that Europe has put snapback sanctions back into force against Iran and encouraging “more of those kinds of things.”