US President Donald Trump says he will “always [be] a peacemaker,” but “sometimes you need some toughness to make peace.”
Asked about the potential for sending in US ground troops to fight against Iran, Trump tells reporters, “That’s the last thing you want to do.”
Asked about the two-week window he provided yesterday for making a decision on whether to join Israel in the war, Trump says he’s giving Iran “a period of time.”
“I would say two weeks would be the maximum,” he says.
Trump indicates that Israel wouldn’t be able to take out Iran’s Fordo underground nuclear facility on its own. “They really have a very limited capacity. They could break through a little section, but they can’t go down very deep. They don’t have that capacity.”
“Maybe it won’t be necessary,” he adds.
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