
President Donald Trump said he’s not worried about Iran’s nuclear program, claiming the Iranians are now “exhausted.”
Speaking during a White House press briefing on Friday, President Trump said that he would “absolutely” bomb Iran again if it resumed enrichment of uranium, but he went on to say that he was confident Tehran wouldn’t.
“They’re exhausted,” the President said of the Iranians.
“The last thing they’re thinking about is nuclear.
“I don’t believe that they’re going to go back into nuclear anytime soon. They spent over a trillion dollars on nuclear, and they never got it together, and nothing was moved from the site.”
Last Saturday, the US struck nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan, using long-range B-2 bombers and Massive Ordnance Penetrators, a.k.a. “bunker busters.”
The Trump administration has maintained that the strikes totally destroyed Iran’s nuclear-weapons program.
“If you want to know what’s going on at Fordow, you better go there and get a big shovel because no one’s under there right now,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at a briefing last Sunday.
Polling shows that a majority of Americans supported limited strikes, a similar proportion are afraid of a widening conflict and Iranian reprisals on US soil.
Republican voters overwhelmingly supported the strikes, while a majority of Democrats and independents did not.
An even three-quarters of voters believe that despite the Israel-Iran ceasefire announced on Monday, the conflict could spill over into a wider regional war. Forty-six percent of voters said they believed an attack on US soil is now likely.
A majority of voters in the poll—54%—said they believe Israel has too much influence over US foreign policy, more voters favoured arming Ukraine than Israel.