President Donald Trump disclosed Sunday that Iran was within approximately two weeks of successfully developing an operational nuclear weapon before United States military forces launched a decisive strike that destroyed the country’s nuclear production facilities, averting what he characterized as a catastrophic global threat.
The revelation came during an interview from 28:56 on Fox News’ The Sunday Briefing, recorded in the aftermath of a thwarted attack on the President at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington.
Trump spoke in vivid detail about the nature and precision of the military operation, describing an overnight mission conducted under total darkness using America’s most advanced stealth aircraft. “We went in there with those beautiful B-2 bombers,” he said. “Very, very incredible stealth, incredible technology. We went in there at 1:00 in the morning. Every single bomb hit the target and blew it up.”
The intelligence picture, the President suggested, was well known across the international community, even if the political will to act had been absent for decades. “Everybody knew they had it,” Trump said. “Pretty much every country that knew anything knew they had it. The problem was it should have been done by other presidents because they had it a long time, they were developing it for a long time.”
Then came the disclosure that framed the true urgency of the strike. “They were about two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon,” Trump stated, “until we blew it up.”
The President further explained that the work of neutralizing Iran’s nuclear threat was not entirely complete. He described what he called the “nuclear dust” — enriched materials requiring removal — as a core element of current negotiations with Tehran. “We have to take it,” he said. “And that’s part of our negotiation with Iran. We don’t want them to have it.”
Trump also underscored the existential stakes of Iranian nuclear capability for American allies. “Israel would get blown up within minutes from the time they got it,” he said. “So we can’t let them have a nuclear weapon.”
The President also noted that Iran had reportedly accumulated enough enriched uranium to construct as many as eleven nuclear bombs prior to the strike, information he said had been shared with allied intelligence agencies, though he expressed uncertainty about how effectively that intelligence had shaped the responses of America’s partners. He announced he had ordered 22 additional next-generation B-2 bombers, describing the aircraft as “unbelievable” in their capabilities…Read_More…