Trump: Iran’s nuclear program ‘obliterated,’ bombs penetrated Fordo ‘like it was butter’

Iran’s nuclear program was “obliterated like nobody’s ever seen before,” says US President Donald Trump in an interview with Fox News.

“That meant the end to their nuclear ambitions, at least for a period of time,” Trump says, a week after US planes bombed three key nuclear facilities in Iran.

“The bomb went through it like it was butter, like it was absolute butter,” he says of the underground Fordo facility.

“It’s just thousands of tons of rock in that room right now. The whole place was just destroyed,” says Trump.

The president insists that the Iranians didn’t move highly enriched uranium out of the Fordo site before the attack. “I think first it was very hard to do. It’s very dangerous to do. It’s very heavy, very, very heavy. It’s a very hard thing to do. Plus, we didn’t give much notice because they didn’t know we were coming until just then.”

Iran was “weeks away” from achieving a nuclear weapon, Trump says. Tehran is not about to restart its nuclear program, he argues. “The last thing they want to do right now is think about nuclear. They have to put themselves back into condition and shape.”

Trump says that more countries will make peace with Israel as a result of the US and Israeli campaign against Iran.

“We have some really great countries in there right now,” he says, “and I think we’re going to start loading them up because Iran was the primary problem. I actually thought Iran would… I actually thought we had a period of time where I thought Iran would join the Abraham Accords along with everybody else.”

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