We shouldn’t have been in Iran, Trump tells Fox News
US President Donald Trump said the United States “shouldn’t have been in Iran” while speaking on past American military interventions during an interview with Fox News.
“You look at what happened with Iraq. We did so bad. It was such a foolish thing what we did. We shouldn’t have been there in the first place, by the way,” Trump said, before adding, “We shouldn’t have been in Iran, but Iran has the capability.”
Trump claimed that without US strikes, “they would have a nuclear weapon right now and will be a whole different story,” adding, “If we didn’t hit them with B-2 bombers, nine months ago, they would have a nuclear weapon right now.”
He also said the US had deliberately avoided targeting much of Iran’s military structure. “Their military, we sort of left it alone because we think that their military is somewhat moderate,” Trump said.
“We’ve taken different forms of leadership out. We’ve actually left their military alone.” He added that “mistakes have been made in wars where you wipe out everybody and then you have a country that’s, you know, for 40 years can never rebuild”.