“It’s that simple,” he said during an exchange with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, on Wednesday.
“I would much prefer a strong, verified deal where we actually blow them up…,” Trump said, referring to Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Deal’s outcome: Either ‘Nice aggression’ or ‘vicious aggression’
The 78-year-old former president added that there were only two possible outcomes, namely “blowing them up nicely or blow them up viciously.”
This is not the first time, Trump and other American officials have urged “total dismantlement” of Iran’s nuclear energy program. The US president had last made the insistence during comments on the NBC's "Meet the Press" program.
Observers said such statements underline the US administration's continued aggressive approach towards the Islamic Republic and its nuclear energy program.
The adversarial standing comes while Washington and Tehran have been engaging in indirect talks since March. The talks’ initiation marked drawn-out absence of such engagement between the two sides that had been caused by Washington’s illegal and unilateral withdrawal from a historical nuclear deal between Tehran and others in 2018.
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