President Donald Trump departed the G7 summit Monday evening, cutting short his planned time in Canada due to developments in the Middle East and warning that residents of Iran’s capital should evacuate immediately.
Trump said he was looking for a “complete give-up” on the part of Iran, and that he was not just seeking a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Asked about the possibility of Iranian attacks on U.S. assets or personnel, Trump said the U.S. would respond. “We’ll come down so hard; then the gloves are off,” he said.
Trump also said he believed Iran was “very close” to a nuclear weapon, despite Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s public testimony to the contrary in March: “The [intelligence community] continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme leader Khomeini has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003,” Gabbard told the House Intelligence Committee.
