Trump Says US Shouldn't Have Been in Iran, Claims B-2 Strikes Delayed Bomb by 9 Months
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Updated · Middle East Eye · May 30
Trump Says US Shouldn't Have Been in Iran, Claims B-2 Strikes Delayed Bomb by 9 Months
4 articles · Updated · Middle East Eye · May 30
Fox News interview remarks cast Trump as criticizing US involvement in Iran even as he defended earlier action, saying B-2 strikes nine months ago stopped Tehran from having a nuclear weapon “right now.”
Trump tied that view to lessons from Iraq, calling past interventions “foolish” and arguing broad destruction leaves countries unable to rebuild for decades.
US targeting was deliberately limited, he said, with much of Iran’s military left intact because Washington viewed it as “somewhat moderate” while taking out other forms of leadership.
The comments landed as the wider Iran war intensified, with the UN Security Council set to hold an emergency meeting on Lebanon.
Is US military restraint inadvertently empowering the very hardliners it aims to contain in Iran?
Is the current Iran strategy truly avoiding the power vacuum mistakes made in the Iraq War?
If strikes can't erase nuclear knowledge, what is the ultimate endgame for a non-nuclear Iran?