Trump suggests search for Iran uranium only for optics
Beijing—US President Donald Trump suggested that hunting down Iran’s enriched uranium was primarily for political optics, after Israel demanded it as a goal.
“I just feel better if I got it, actually, but it’s—I think, it’s more for public relations than it is for anything else,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview from China broadcast late Thursday in the United States.
“The other thing we could do is bomb it again,” Trump said. “But I, just, I would feel better getting it and we will get it.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who alongside Trump ordered an attack on Iran starting Feb. 28, said in a recent interview that the war was “not over” because the sensitive nuclear material “has to be taken out” of the country.
Trump in June last year ordered the bombing of three key nuclear sites in Iran at the end of a previous round of Israeli bombing of the cleric-run country.
