US president Donald Trump explained that a forthcoming peace agreement with Iran will likely allow the regime to retain its conventional ballistic missiles.
Standing before reporters at the G7 meeting in France, the President broke with decades of bipartisan U.S. foreign policy by conceding that Iran will likely retain its ballistic missiles as part of a newly negotiated peace agreement.
‘What am I going to do? Am I going to let Saudi Arabia have missiles, but they can’t have them?’ Trump said during the briefing.
‘Missiles aren’t the problem. They hurt a little location, but they don’t blow up the planet.’
A reporter pressed Trump, saying one of the goals of Epic Fury was to destroy Iran’s ballistic missiles.
‘What are they keeping? They have less than other nations now. The rest of them are underground. They can’t even get them out,’ Trump said in defense, adding that they have already knocked out about 85% of their missiles.
The President also said that he might stick around for the signing of the memorandum on Friday, but added that it ‘might not be the kind of document’ he should sign.
