Trump hints at new B-2 strikes on Iran: ‘I don’t want to waste all that fuel’

After saying he would back Israeli strikes on Iran’s ballistic missile program, Trump suggests the US may join the next air campaign.

By World Israel News Staff

President Donald Trump hinted Monday that the US will not only support Israel in the event it launches a new air campaign against Iran, it may also get directly involved by bombing Iranian nuclear facilities, drawing a parallel to the US airstrikes in June.

At the beginning of his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago on Monday, Trump told reporters he would “absolutely” back a new round of Israeli airstrikes against Iran’s ballistic missile and nuclear programs.

Later that day, Trump declined to answer questions regarding how close the US is to another military operation against Iran, emphasizing that no final decision has yet been made.

“Well, I don’t want to say that, but Iran may be behaving badly. It hasn’t been confirmed,” Trump said.

The president hinted that the US was prepared to strike Iran again with heavy-duty bunker buster bombs deployed on B-2 stealth bombers, alluding to a possible repeat of Operation Midnight Hammer on June 22.

“I hope they’re not trying to build up again, because if they are, we’re going to have no choice but very quickly to eradicate that buildup,” Trump threatened, saying he would prefer not to order additional B-2 bomber strikes.

“So I hope Iran is not trying to build up, as I’ve been reading, that they’re building up weapons and other things. And if they are, they’re not using the sites that we obliterated, but they’re using possibly different sites.”

“We know exactly where they’re going, what they’re doing. And I hope they’re not doing it because we don’t want to waste the fuel on a B-2. It’s a 37-hour trip, both ways. I don’t want to waste a lot of fuel.”

Should the US confirm Iran has resumed its uranium enrichment operations, Trump continued, Tehran would suffer “very powerful” consequences.

“Maybe more powerful than the last time. Yeah. And Iran should have made a deal the last time. I gave them the option. I said, ‘You can make a deal. Do it.’ I told them, ‘Do it.’ And they didn’t believe me. Now they believe me.”