Iran‘s nuclear facilities suffered ‘severe damage’ after the U.S. carried out devastating airstrikes Saturday night, the CIA has confirmed as the White House demands bombing leaker be jailed.
Speaking at a combative press conference at the NATO summit in the Netherlands, Donald Trump lashed out again at ‘fake news’ by slamming CNN, MSNBC and the New York Times for publishing reports suggesting the damage from the bombings was limited.
Trump began by asserting Iran’s nuclear labs had been rendered ‘totally inoperable’ after intelligence reports from both Tehran and Tel Aviv agreed that destruction had been extensive.
He also suggested the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth may need to change his title to ‘Secretary of War’ given the deteriorating situation in the Middle East.
The president kicked off meetings at the NATO summit on Wednesday by comparing Saturday’s precision airstrikes to the two atomic bombings on Japan that ended World War II.
‘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,’ he told reporters at The Hague.
Earlier in the day, NATO chief Mark Rutte suggested Donald Trump dealt with Israel and Iran’s war in the Middle East like a ‘daddy’ who uses ‘strong language’ to stop two children fighting in a schoolyard
Rutte put on a fawning display with Trump, calling his intervention in the Iran-Israel conflict ‘decisive’ and labelling him a ‘man of strength but also a man of peace’.
