President Donald Trump said Wednesday evening that he told Prime Minister Netanyahu the greatest danger to Israel is a nuclear bomb falling on its center, describing the current deal under negotiation as beneficial for Israel. The remark came amid a string of presidential statements about the evolving Iran nuclear accord, as reported by an Israeli news site.
President Donald Trump made the comment Wednesday evening at 19:40 Jerusalem, according to an Israeli news site report. "I told Bibi, your biggest danger is that they drop a [nuclear] bomb on central Israel. So this is a good deal for you. I think they [Israel] are happy," Trump said. The statement extends a week-long series of presidential remarks on the US-Iran nuclear negotiations. As The Zioneer reported at 19:08 Jerusalem, Trump earlier Wednesday said only one unnamed country asked the US to continue bombing Iran, calling the deal a nuclear blocker. At 19:41, he argued Iran should retain some ballistic missiles because other states also have them and called the peace deal 'the start of something bigger.' The president's framing of the deal as a shield against a nuclear threat to Israel's heartland marks his most direct warning yet about the stakes of a failed negotiation.
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