US President Donald Trump says last year’s American strikes on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities “obliterated Iran’s nuclear potential.”
But then “they started again,” Trump says at a rally in Kentucky, claiming Iran managed to begin rebuilding its nuclear program after he destroyed their “potential” to do so.
“That’s why we’ve got to finish it,” Trump says of the current war. “We don’t want to go back every two years.”
Trump pauses his speech after a woman in the crowd behind him collapses.
He also says that “we won” the Iran war — and that the United States has “virtually destroyed Iran” — but that it will stay in the fight to finish the job. “We don’t want to leave early, do we?” Trump adds.
“You never like to say too early you won. We won,” Trump tells the rally. “In the first hour it was over.”
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