President Donald Trump issued a stern warning to Iran just before high-stakes nuclear talks began this week in Geneva. Speaking to reporters on Air Force One, Trump said he plans to be “indirectly” involved in the negotiations and cautioned Iran’s leaders about “the consequences of not making a deal.” He also referenced the US military strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites last June, saying, “We could have had a deal instead of sending the B-2s in to knock out their nuclear potential. And we had to send the B-2s.”
According to The Miami Herald, those strikes involved over 125 aircraft hitting three Iranian nuclear sites, including seven B-2 stealth bombers armed with 30,000-pound bunker-busting bombs. The US government claimed the attack had “obliterated” the facilities, though some experts questioned the extent of damage to deeply buried sites. Iran later retaliated by targeting the US Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, though no US personnel were harmed.
