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Donald Trump syas Iran nuclear facilities too difficult to reach in raid | The Jerusalem Post

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Iran's nuclear facilities are deeply buried in a way that would make them difficult to raid for their enriched uranium stockpiles, US President Donald Trump told CBS News on Tuesday. "I don't even think about it. I just know that, you know, that's so deeply buried it's gonna be very hard for anybody," he said. The President also addressed the ongoing tensions surrounding the Strait of Hormuz, saying that other countries need to come up and take their oil, echoing a post he made on Truth Social that day. "If they want oil, come up and grab it. There's no real threat, there's no substantial threat because the country [Iran] has been decimated," he claimed. In a press conference on Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, alongside Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine, said that there are currently many more ships sailing through the Strait of Hormuz than there had been previously, adding that Trump had threatened Iran in order to allow it to be opened. "We would much prefer to get a deal. If Iran was willing to relinquish material they have and ambitions they have, open the strait - that's the goal," Hegseth said. "We don't want to do more militarily than we have to. But I didn't mean it flippantly when I said that in the meantime, we'll negotiate with bombs." Hegseth also stated that the upcoming days of Operation Epic Fury would be "decisive." Netanyahu says US can handle Strait of Hormuz by force Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also addressed the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, stating that the US can “handle this by force. They can be bypassed by diverting the energy pipelines from Iran to Israel via Saudi Arabia." Netanyahu also added that "the Iran of today is not the Iran of 30 days ago. There is no comparison," and emphasized that the situation that has arisen constitutes "a rare opportunity for a broad regional alliance with Arab and neighboring countries." Yehuda Shlezinger contributed to this report.

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