Iran Israel News Live Updates: Trump likens US air strikes on Iran to atomic bombing of Hiroshima

Donald Trump also likened the US strikes on Iran to his country’s decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan in the second world war.

Speaking at The Hague, Trump said, “They spent trillions of dollars trying to do this thing, and they didn’t come up with it, and we’re actually getting along with them very well right now.

“But had we not succeeded with that hit? That hit ended the war. That hit ended the war. 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. This ended that, this ended that war. If we didn’t take that out, they would have been they’d be fighting right now.”