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Trump threatens new strikes if Iran rebuilds nuclear programme: They won't enrich
US President Donald Trump warned Iran against trying to rebuild its nuclear programme, saying, "Iran will not enrich — the last thing they want to do is enrich.""Iran is not going to make bombs any time soon... We don't think Iran had enough time to get nuclear items out of the sites in time. I think it was a tremendous hit," he told reporters aboard Air Force in the day, Trump claimed that news reports stating 400 kilograms of uranium had been removed from Iranian nuclear sites before US strikes were "fake news." Meanwhile, the White House said the reports were aimed at undermining the President.
Speaking to reporters on his Air Force One, Trump said that the US hit on Iran "ended the war." "The Iranian nuclear programme has been put back by decades," he US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities "effectively fulfilled our narrow objective: to degrade Iran's capacity to produce a nuclear weapon," the US envoy to the UN, Dorothy Shea, told the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday."These strikes – in accordance with the inherent right to collective self-defence, consistent with the U.N. Charter – aimed to mitigate the threat posed by Iran to Israel, the region and to, more broadly, international peace and security," Shea told the 15-member President Donald Trump has said the strikes over the weekend "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities. Earlier on Tuesday he announced that a ceasefire between Iran and Israel had started."I think it's still early to assess all the strikes. We know we were able to push back the (nuclear) program. We were able to remove the imminent threat that we had," Israel's UN Ambassador Danny Danon told reporters on Tuesday.A preliminary US intelligence assessment has determined that US strikes over the weekend on Iranian nuclear facilities have set back Tehran's program by only a matter of months, reported Reuters."Iran emerged proud and steadfast in the face of this criminal aggression. This proves one simple truth more clearly than ever: Diplomacy and dialog are the only path to resolving the unnecessary crisis over Iran's peaceful program," Iran's UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani told the Security Council.- EndsInputs from Reuters
