By Isabella Torregiani
1:05pm PDT, Jun 26, 2025
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President
Donald Trump likened the recent airstrikes on Iran's nuclear facilities to the U.S. dropping atomic bombs on Japan during World War II. While speaking at the NATO summit on Wednesday, June 25, Trump claimed the surprise attack on Tehran helped "end the war."
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During the NATO summit in the Netherlands, President Donald Trump praised the success of the mission in Iran: "I don't want to use an example of Hiroshima. I don't want to use an example of Nagasaki, but that was essentially the same thing that ended that war," he said. Trump explained that the airstrikes triggered a ceasefire between Iran and Israel just 12 days after tensions began: "Had we not succeeded with that hit, that hit ended the war," he continued. "If we didn't take that out, they would have been, they'd be fighting right now."
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While at the conference, President Donald Trump discredited a leaked intelligence report suggesting Iran could quickly restart its nuclear program. He argued that Tehran didn't have time to remove enriched uranium from its sites before the attack: "They didn't have a chance to get anything out because we acted fast. If it would have taken two weeks, maybe," he said. "But it's very hard to remove that kind of material, very hard and very dangerous for them to remove it."
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President Donald Trump continued to stand by the mission, reiterating that Iran couldn't have moved the uranium in time, especially because they didn't know the U.S. was coming. He claimed that the airstrikes set Iran's nuclear ambitions back years, adding that the country won't "ever do it again." Said the former reality star, "They just went through hell. I think they've had it. The last thing they want to do is enrich."
