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Friday, April 18, 2025
Trump to reporters: Your life will be in great danger if Iran gets nuclear weapon
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
US President Donald Trump tells reporters in the Oval Office that their lives “will be in great danger” if Iran obtains a nuclear weapon, before someone standing near the press pool collapses, leading to an abrupt end of the public event.
“With Iran, they can’t have a nuclear weapon. And if they have a nuclear weapon, you’ll all be very unhappy. You’ll all be very unhappy because your life will be in great danger,” Trump says before an individual experienced a medical episode.
Trump tells reporters their lives will be in great danger if Iran gets a nuke and then someone has a medical event and collapses, bringing the event to an abrupt close pic.twitter.com/B0YQtDvwdx
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