President Donald Trump compared the U.S. bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities to the Hiroshima bombing during World War II as he pushed back on reports that his airstrikes caused far less damage than the president initially claimed.
Speaking to reporters ahead of a NATO summit in The Hague, Trump was frustrated with multiple reports that a U.S. intelligence analysis suggested in an early assessment that Iran’s nuclear program had been set back only a few months by the weekend attacks.
This contradicts Trump’s claim that the plants were “completely and fully obliterated.”
On Wednesday, Trump said of the Iran raid, “That hit ended the war.”
Drawing comparisons to the atomic bombings of Japan, he added: “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.”
