US would strike again if Iran rebuilt nuke program, says Donald Trump
PTC News Desk: US President Donald Trump warned Iran against trying to rebuild its nuclear programme, saying, "Iran will not enrich — the last thing they want to do is enrich."
"Iran is not going to make bombs any time soon... We don't think Iran had enough time to get nuclear items out of the sites in time. I think it was a tremendous hit," he told reporters aboard Air Force One.
Meanwhile, US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities "effectively fulfilled our narrow objective: to degrade Iran's capacity to produce a nuclear weapon," the US envoy to the UN, Dorothy Shea, told the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday.
"These strikes – in accordance with the inherent right to collective self-defence, consistent with the U.N. Charter – aimed to mitigate the threat posed by Iran to Israel, the region and to, more broadly, international peace and security," Shea told the 15-member council.
Earlier in the day, President Trump dismissed media reports claiming that 400 kilograms of uranium had been moved from Iranian nuclear sites ahead of the U.S. airstrikes, labeling them as "fake news."
The White House echoed this sentiment, suggesting the reports were intended to discredit the President. Trump also declared that the weekend strikes had "completely and totally obliterated" Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities. On Tuesday, he further announced that a ceasefire between Iran and Israel had officially begun.
- With inputs from agencies
