US President Donald Trump on Thursday ruled out striking Iran with a nuclear weapon, after his previous threats to destroy Iranian civilization.
“No, I wouldn’t use it,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “Why would I use a nuclear weapon when we’ve, in a very conventional way, decimated them without it?” he asked.
“A nuclear weapon should never be allowed to be used by anybody.” Trump on April 7 issued a genocidal threat to Iran that a “whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back,” but within hours agreed to a ceasefire that he has since extended in the war launched by the United States and Israel.