US President Donald Trump suggested that Washington’s efforts to track down Iran’s enriched uranium were mainly driven by political optics, according to Arab News.
Trump’s remarks followed Israel’s pressure for the issue to be treated as an objective
“I just feel better if I got it, actually, but it’s — I think, it’s more for public relations than it is for anything else,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview from China broadcast late Thursday in the US.
In a recent interview, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the war was “not over,” arguing that the sensitive nuclear material “has to be taken out” of the country.
On February 28, the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran, targeting its leadership and triggering a new conflict in the Middle East.
Iran has been responding with a retaliatory counterattack in Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi as a retaliatory move, while launching barrages of missiles and drones toward Israel.
The conflict has spread across the Middle East, leaving thousands dead, triggering unprecedented disruptions to energy supplies especially after the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
The adversaries remain locked in a standoff over the Strait of Hormuz, as Iran tightens its control over maritime traffic while the United States continues to enforce a blockade on Iranian ports.
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