> Trump says requesting Israel stop attacking Iran right now is 'very hard'
Trump says requesting Israel stop attacking Iran right now is 'very hard'
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President Donald Trump says it is "very hard" to request Israel stop attacking Iran right now.
"If somebody is winning, it's a little bit harder to do than if somebody is losing," he says.
Trump also says his director of national intelligence ‘was wrong’ on Iran’s nuclear program.
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, told lawmakers in March that U.S. spy agencies believed that Iran hadn’t made a decision to build a nuclear weapon.
Speaking to reporters after touching down in New Jersey, Trump was asked about that assessment and responded, “Then my intelligence community was wrong.”
When told it was Gabbard who had said that he responded, “She’s wrong.”
Trump says he doesn’t understand why Iran would need nuclear power for civilian use given that the country is so oil-rich.
“They're sitting on top of one of the largest piles of oil in the world. I just don't know whey they'd need that for civilian purposes.”
"You're sitting on one of the largest oil piles anywhere in the world,” the president added “It's a little bit hard to see why you'd need that.”