President Donald Trump expressed frustration Tuesday after Iran broke a ceasefire, prompting retaliation from Israel during a gaggle with reporters on the White House lawn.
Trump announced the ceasefire Monday, saying it was supposed to take effect at 1 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, but Iran fired missiles at Israel Tuesday. Trump vented, saying the countries had been âfighting so longâ they couldnât make peace.
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âYou know, when I say okay, now you have 12 hours, you donât go out in the first hour just drop everything you have on them,â Trump said. âSo Iâm not happy with them. Iâm not happy with Iran either. But Iâm really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning because the one rocket that didnât land, that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didnât land, Iâm not happy about that.â
âWe basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard, that they donât know what the fuck they are doing,â Trump added.
The United States struck facilities in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan related to Iranâs effort to develop nuclear weapons early Sunday morning local time, using as many as 14 GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators in the operation, which involved a 37-hour flight by seven B-2A Spirit bombers.
The American strikes came ten days after Israel launched a military operation targeting the Iranian nuclear program. Iran has responded with repeatedmissile attacks on Israeli cities and a refusal to resume negotiations over its efforts to pursue nuclear weapons.
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