President Donald Trump has made his first public comments after launching strikes on Iran this weekend, saying that the country’s long range missiles and nuclear weapons program posed as “intolerable threat” to the United States.
Speaking from the East Room at the start of a ceremony to award the Medal of Honor to a trio of U.S. Army soldiers who’d served in the Second World War, the Vietnam War and Afghanistan, the president said Iran’s ballistic missile capability would have “soon” been able to reach beyond hitting American bases in the Middle East and Europe to hit “our beautiful America” while making it “extraordinarily difficult” for future airstrikes to halt the nuclear weapons program he claimed to have “obliterated” last June.
