Former President Donald Trump encouraged Israel on Friday to hit Iran’s nuclear facilities as it prepares to retaliate after Iran fired nearly 200 ballistic missiles into the country at the start of the month.
Trump made the remarks during a Q&A session with voters in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Trump has been touring the southeastern United States in recent days to survey the damage from Hurricane Helene and talk with voters about what they need to recover.
“I listened to Biden yesterday … they asked him, what do you think about Iran, would you hit Iran? And he goes, ‘As long as they don’t hit the nuclear stuff.’” Trump said. “That’s the thing you want to hit, right?”
“I think he’s got that one wrong. Isn’t that the one you’re supposed to hit?” Trump continued. “It’s the biggest risk we have, nuclear weapons.”
He said that Israel should focus on hitting Iran’s nuclear facilities first and worrying about other potential targets later.
Israeli officials have been insistent that Iran will pay a heavy price for its attack. They even reportedly warned Iran prior to their attack that if any of the missiles hit Israel that Israel would target their oil or nuclear facilities.
The breakout time for Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon is only a couple of weeks given the current stockpile of enriched uranium they have.
Some have suggested that the real time is much longer, at minimum several months, because they argue that Iran still has a lot of work to do in terms of producing a weapon that will work. This argument assumes that Iran has been telling the truth to the world that it does not have a clandestine nuclear weapons program that has been working to solve this problem.
While Democrats seek to deflect blame from the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous foreign policy as the reason for Iran’s increased aggression in recent years, evidence points directly at the administration.
Data compiled by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies shows that Trump exiting the Iran nuclear deal did not trigger Iran’s build up of enriched uranium.
Iran only decided to start enriching uranium in violation of the agreement after Biden was elected to office.
The administration has relaxed sanctions enforcement against the Islamic regime, allowing it to earn tens of billions of dollars in oil revenue that it has used to fund terrorism throughout the region.
