Vance: US strikes set back Iran’s nuclear program ‘substantially’

vice-president Jd vance declared Sunday that America “is not at war with Iran”, but is rather at war with the Iranian nuclear program, which was “substantially” behind by us.

In an appearance in “this week” of ABC, Vance praised “the decisive action of President Donald Trump to destroy the program” and expressed an “incredible quantity of gratitude” to the American troops, which, he said, have traveled thousands of kilometers on a non-stop flight of 30 hours “,” never touched the ground “and dropped a 30,000 pound bomb” “.

“No soldier in the world has training, skills and equipment to do what these guys did last night,” said Vance. “I know that the president and I are both very proud of them, and I think that what they did was achieved a very fundamental American national objective. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon program. The president was very clear on this subject, and thanks to bravery and competence and our skills of our big pilots and all those who supported this mission, we took an important step for this national objective.

Vance hesitated to disclose too much sensitive information on the mission, which would have involved 125 planes.

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Jonathan Karl of the ABC asked the vice-president: “Can you definitely say that the Iranian nuclear program has now been destroyed?”

“I don’t want to go into sensitive intelligence here, but we know that we have handed over the Iranian nuclear program which is considerably found last night. Whether years or beyond, we know that it will be very long before Iran can even build a nuclear weapon If they want, “said Vance.

Pressed on the extent of damage, the vice-president again refused to disclose sensitive information, but added: “I feel extremely confident, and I can say to the American people with great confidence that they are much further from a nuclear program today than they were 24 hours ago.”

“It was the objective of the mission – to destroy this Fordow nuclear site – and, of course, to do damage to other sites,” he said. “But we are very convinced that the Fordow nuclear site was considerably behind and it was our goal.”

Vance declared separately “Meet the Press” from NBC that the United States had engaged in a diplomatic process with the Iranians in vain until Trump “then” decided to issue private ultimatums to the Iranians “.

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“My message to the Iranians is that it would be the most stupid thing in the world,” said Vance about potential reprisals after the United States struck. “If you look at what happened last night, we had an incredibly targeted and precise surgical shot on nuclear installations which are the target of the American operation. Our national interest is that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon. Our strikes facilitated last night, I think it would be a catastrophic error.”

Vance reiterated how Trump mentioned in his end of Saturday evening speech in the White House that the United States wants Iran to abandon its peacefully nuclear program – but allowing Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon remains outside the table.

“There is no way that the United States allows Iran to have a nuclear weapon. And so it must really choose a way,” Vance in ABC told. “Will they take the path of war continues, to finance terrorism, to look for nuclear weapons? Or will they work with us to abandon nuclear weapons permanently? If they are ready to choose the intelligent path, they will certainly find a voluntary partner in the United States to dismantle this nuclear weapon program. “”

He also issued a warning.

“But if they decide, they will attack our troops, if they decide, they continue to try to build a nuclear weapon. Then we will answer that with overwhelming force. So really, what happens is to the Iranians.”

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Trump warned on Saturday that “all Iran’s reprisals against the United States of America will come up against a much greater force than what has been observed this evening”. THE US military made “massive precision strikes” on the three main nuclear installations of the Iranian regime: Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan “, which, according to Trump, continued for years a” horribly destructive business “and was now” completely and completely erased “.