Likening strikes to Hiroshima, Trump says US will hit Iran again if it tries to restart enrichment, but is sure he won’t need to

US President Donald Trump says he will strike Iran again if it tries to restart its nuclear enrichment program, but he’s sure it won’t be necessary.

Asked by a reporter if the US would carry out more attacks if Tehran rebuilds its uranium enrichment facilities, Trump says, “Sure. But I’m not going to have to worry about that. It’s gone for years.”

Asked how long he thinks the Iranian nuclear program has been set back, Trump says: “I think it’s basically decades, because I don’t think they’ll ever do it again. I think they’ve had it. I mean, they just went through hell. They’ve had it.”

“The last thing they want to do is enrich anything right now,” says Trump. “They want to recover.”

“They’re not going to have a bomb and they’re not going to enrich.”

Trump compares the US bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites to the nuclear weapons America dropped on Japan to end World War II: “That hit ended the war. That hit ended the war. I don’t want to use an example of Hiroshima, I don’t want to use an example of Nagasaki, but that was essentially the same thing. That ended that war. This ended [the] war [with Iran]. If we didn’t take that out, they would have been fighting right now.”

“I think we’ll end up having somewhat of a relationship with Iran,” he says.

The ceasefire that Israel and Iran agreed to was “a very equal agreement,” says Trump. “They both said, ‘That’s enough.'”

“We had a tremendous victory, a tremendous hit,” says Trump.

“Israel got hit very hard,” Trump continues, “especially the last couple of days. Israel was hit really hard. Those ballistic missiles, boy they took out a lot of buildings.”

“And they’ve been great,” he says, “Bibi Netanyahu should be very proud of himself.”