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US President Donald Trump said Saturday that he needed to stop killing Iranian leaders to work out who the United States was negotiating with, while reiterating that Iran must never be allowed to develop nuclear weapons, Anadolu Agency reported.
“I gotta stop” killing Iranian leaders, Trump told a campaign rally in Georgia, “because I gotta figure out who the hell we’re negotiating with.”
“They don’t have any airplanes, no ships, no anything, no leaders. Level one leader is gone, level two leader is gone,” he said, repeating his account of the destruction of Iran’s military and leadership by the United States.
Trump also defended his 2018 decision to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, reached under then-President Barack Obama. He said the move came at a critical moment to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
“I terminated one of the worst deals ever made, Barack Hussein Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or as some people call it, the Iran nuclear deal, which was a road to a nuclear weapon for Iran. I terminated it, luckily, just in time,” Trump said.
“We obliterated Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity with Operation Midnight Hammer and Operation Epic Fury,” he said, referring to military operations in 2025 and from February to May this year.
“We defeated them militarily, financially, and otherwise. We have to make sure that they never, ever have a nuclear weapon,” Trump added.
