Trump Comments on Alleged US Strike at Iranian Girls School and Broader Iran Tensions

Trump Comments on Alleged US Strike at Iranian Girls School and Broader Iran Tensions

President Trump responds to reports of a US strike on an Iranian girls' school, calling war nasty. He discusses Iran's nuclear program, sanctions, and the possibility of military action. Trump also touches on the Strait of Hormuz, Hezbollah, and the Abraham Accords, expressing hope for broader peace in the Middle East.

‘War Is Nasty’: Trump responds to Alleged US Strike on Iranian Girls’ School. | Transcript:

But we're the only ones that can. And they say China has the equipment to If they don't honor the agreement or some things aren't even mentioned in the agreement. It's a memorandum of understanding, but we have an understanding of certain things without writing it. And if they don't honor that, we'll probably go back to bombing them until they honor it, you know? It's amazing what bombs can do. But we hope that we're never going to have to use it. We have a nuclear weapon, we'll get nuked themselves if they sold a nuclear weapon Cuz you can't cover everything in a document. It's common sense. They don't want to get bombed. They don't want to get hit. As far as sanctions are concerned, at some point, you know, we have sanctions which

will never let them rebuild. They would have no money. They would be in poverty. The 91 million people would starve. So, something will happen as soon as they behave. When they behave, we're going to let that go. We're going to have to. I put sanctions on a lot of people and then I let them go. A lot of countries. Yeah, please. Nuclear weapon, neither produce Cuz uh we have taken a lot of their money. And we have their money. We have taken their money. It's not our money. It's their money. And we froze it. At a certain point in time, I guess we're going to have to give it back. You know, if we didn't give it back, nobody would ever invest in the dollar again. I don't think they're doing well. And I feel very bad for

I didn't do this for a regime change, but I think this group is regime change. I mean Hey. Think they could do better with respect to Hezbollah. Now, if it was a fault, and as you know, that's under investigation. Uh it's such a strange question to be asked at this state. It's talking about a long time ago, but nobody did that on purpose. Uh I guess you'd have to say to about them, what about the thousands of soldiers that they blew up when they opened their car door? What about the thousands of people that were killed by Iran? No, mistakes are made. The war is nasty. But I know it's under investigation and I could have a report for you tomorrow. But so away. So rather than Maritime traffic through the Strait of

Hormuz has already increased very substantially and the normal flow of energy will resume in the coming days and trillions of dollars will be made by the world and the stock market will I believe continue to rise. The only difference is that a player that's very volatile, very tough, very smart, frankly. You know, they have in one way a primitive culture, but it's also a genius primitive culture. They're very smart people, very good negotiators. But so away. I might be in tough, but it's pretty crazy. You can invest in a country, you So we'll be working on a parallel effort with the Gulf nations to address non-nuclear issues such as the conventional ballistic missiles which we'll be talking about.

And support. I mean, they have to have some because other people have some. You got to have some. It's bombs. It was UAE. He's a good fighter. Uh-huh. should have done What I'm doing and what I did should have been done years ago. Would have been much easier, much less firepower. But it wasn't. And again, I want to thank all those countries. I want to thank Israel and Bibi Netanyahu. But every administration for decades has sought to get Iran to relinquish its nuclear ambitions. Okay. So I think China has been terrific. I tell you that before.

They could have been bad. They could have sent in to try and block or break the blockade. They could have sent in an oil ship with six destroyers alongside of it on each side. They didn't do that. Uh President Xi helped me. He tried to help and I think he probably helped get it solved. You know, they get 50% of their oil from that location. So, that wasn't that easy. President Xi was fantastic. He tried to help me solve it. Unprecedented pressure the United States put on the regime. But, as I expressed to the world leaders here this week, it's my hope that the peace agreement will be the beginning of a much larger

deal all across the Middle East. We're very close. Look at the job we've done in Gaza. Look at Hamas. Hamas has been very silent. You haven't read anything about Hamas. 747, a wonderful plane, and they flew it to Iran. The Lebanon peace is something we'll have to work on a little bit. It's a very small piece of the puzzle, actually, but it still makes a lot of noise. The big deal is the Iran deal. That's where the money is, where the power was. But, they have Hezbollah and You got to get that done one way or the other. We'll do it. I think Israel can do a much better job on it.

Syria would love to do it. 0.7 dollars down. So, the expansion of the Abrahamic accords is the other thing that we hope we're going to get. And I think Saudi Arabia, if they lead the way, they'd be doing themselves a big favor. Um I have a question about this weekend. Why not stick around for the signing ceremony with this Iran peace deal? You might? Yeah, I might. But, I'd rather This is a memorandum of understanding. It's very important, but it might not be at the kind of a document that I should be signing.

There's some If it works out, great, you'll look like a genius for sending him. Sure. What? This way, if it works out, I'm going to take the credit. If it doesn't work out, I'm blaming JD. You better be careful, JD. He's going to turn his plane around and get the hell out of here. Yeah, I like that idea. I think it's a good idea. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you.

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