Trump compares the attack on Iran to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: "It ended the war."

The Hague / LondonDonald Trump continues to defend the US attack on Iran, to the point of using surreal arguments. Although he claimed he did not want to compare it, he finally said that the nuclear bombs the US dropped on Japan in 1945 and the US offensive against the Persian country "They're essentially the same thing." "I don't want to use the example of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but they're essentially the same thing. They ended the war," the US leader stated at a press conference at the NATO summit in The Hague. In this regard, the New York tycoon insisted that if the US "had not dismantled" Iran's nuclear facilities, "they would still be fighting."

Later, when the summit ended and he appeared before the press again, in this case supported by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth, he again used the same parallel.

In this way, Trump also reaffirmed this Wednesday one of the ideas he has repeated since Saturday's attack: that Iran's nuclear program has been "completely crippled." "The Fordow enrichment site has been rendered completely inoperative," he said, and the plant's critical infrastructure has been destroyed. The US president cited reports from the Israeli Atomic Energy Agency, but also reports from the ayatollahs' own regime. All of this would have caused a setback of "several years" in Iran's ability to acquire nuclear weapons.

The sweeping statements have been questioned by expert voices and intelligence reports from the US administration itself. But the president has attacked the media—CNN and The New York Times, among others—who have disseminated them; reports he has described as "preliminary." "Fake news," he also repeated. And Hegseth, in turn, also emphasized that "they listened because it's a way to mess with the president." But that by doing so, what they "called into question was the work" of the pilots who had risked their lives in the operation. In any case, Hegseth asserted that "all the evidence [of the destruction of the Fordow facilities] is buried under a mountain, devastated and obliterated. And if you want to assess what happened at Fordow, you better take a very big shovel and dig really deep, because the nuclear program of the I."

The confidence Trump has shown in the action he ordered last week has led him to affirm that "it doesn't matter" whether Iran wants to negotiate an agreement or not, implying that he has no capacity or deterrent to do so. "Maybe we'll sign an agreement. I don't think it's necessary. They had a war, they fought, and now they're going back to their own world. I don't care if we reach an agreement or not. We've destroyed the nuclear program. It's blown to bits, so I'm not particularly worried... We'll meet with them, actually." And he added: "I could get a statement from them saying they won't become a nuclear power; we'll probably ask for it. But they won't do it anyway. They've had enough!"

Pinpoint accuracy

Regarding the characteristics of the attack, Trump also stressed that the bombing was carried out with pinpoint coordination and unprecedented firepower, including "missiles launched from submarines hundreds of miles away" and an air operation involving B-2s, F-22s, F-35s, and more than 50. nine inches [about 22 cm] from the assigned target," he said.

Trump, therefore, reiterated at the closing of the NATO summit that "the attack [on Iran] was devastating" and that Iran "will never again have access to nuclear material." that "they have ended" its nuclear program, after twenty years of attempts. He defended that this action strengthens American deterrence and stressed that the objective has always been to prevent Tehran from becoming a nuclear power. bombings would not have had a structural impact, the Tehran regime would not have accepted a ceasefire with IsraelThe president has gone even further, asserting that "what happened will serve to unblock negotiations for a peace agreement in Gaza." He also did not hesitate to affirm, in this case before Rutte, that, if necessary, he would order another attack should Tehran resume its nuclear enrichment program.

Meanwhile, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, remains silent. Although the Iranian government confirmed the truce agreement with Israel, Khamenei has not appeared in public since June 13, when Israel launched its own attack on Iranian territory. His last live appearance was on June 11, at a meeting with the Parliament.

The geopolitical scenario, however, remains fragile. Iran maintains its stated goal of destroying Israel, and its nuclear activities—which include enriching uranium to 60% purity, close to weapons-grade—continue to cause international alarm. Israel, for its part, maintains that Tehran has made progress toward militarizing the program.