Israel should ‘hit’ Iran nuclear facilities, says Donald Trump;
Joe Biden was asked whether he would support strikes against Iranian nuclear sites. The U.S. president told reporters, “The answer is no.” Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump on Friday, 4th October mentioned that he believes Israel should strike Iran’s nuclear facilities in response to the Islamic Republic’s recent missile barrage.
The former president, speaking at a campaign event in North Carolina, referred to a question posed to Democratic President Joe Biden this week about the possibility of Israel targeting Iran’s nuclear program.
“They asked him, what do you think about Iran, would you hit Iran? And he goes, ‘As long as they don’t hit the nuclear stuff.’ That’s the thing you want to hit, right?” Mr. Trump told a town hall-style event near a major U.S. military base in Fayetteville.
Mr. Biden on Wednesday expressed his opposition to such strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities. His response was clearly to the firing of nearly 200 Iranian missiles toward Israel.
“We’ll be discussing with the Israelis what they’re going to do,” he said, adding that all G7 members agree Israel has “a right to respond, but they should respond in proportion.”
Mr. Trump, consumed with the full steam-ahead presidential election battle with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, has spoken little about the recent intensification of tensions in the Middle East.
This week, he issued a severely critical statement, holding Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris responsible for the crisis.