US former president Donald Trump said this Saturday that Israel should attack Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Speaking to his supporters in a campaign rally in North Carolina this Saturday, US Republican candidate and former president Donald Trump said that Israel should attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, mocking his rival and current president Joe Biden for trying to dissuade Tel Aviv from doing so.
“That’s the thing you want to hit, right? Hit the nuclear first, and worry about the rest later,” Trump said.
Reacting to Biden’s words on the matter, Trump said: “I think [Biden] got that wrong. Isn’t that what you’re supposed to hit?” Trump asked. “The answer should have been to hit the nuclear first and worry about the rest later,” the former president said.
It was last week on Thursday that Bidden said he would not support an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites, also announcing that he plans to impose more sanctions on Tehran for the missile attack against Israel.
Biden’s comments came after the top Israeli diplomat at the UN warned his country’s retaliation for an Iranian salvo of nearly 200 ballistic missiles would be heavier than Iran “could ever have imagined”. On the same day, the Israeli chief of staff, Lt Gen Herzi Halevi, warned: “We have the capabilities to reach and strike any point in the Middle East”, a reality that Israel’s enemies would “soon understand”
Likewise, a senior US State Department official told CNN that Israel had offered no assurances that attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities in response to recent missile attacks on Israel was not an option on the table. has not done
What the Biden administration fears most is that a major Israeli response, particularly one targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities, could trigger further escalation that could ultimately draw in US forces.
This would be a worst-case scenario for Biden because the US, under his leadership, is abbot to have a presidential election in a few weeks and a new war in the Middle East is of course the last thing the White House would want.
