Trump compares US strikes on Iran with Hiroshima, Nagasaki bombings: 'Essentially the same thing'

US President Donald Trump

US President Donald Trump, on Wednesday, compared US strikes in Iran to the Second World War bombings in Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki and said that the US Strikes helped Iran and Israel reach a swift solution amid their attacks on each other. Trump dismissed an intelligence leak that said that US strikes on Iran had a very limited impact.

"I don’t want to use an example of Hiroshima, I don’t want to use an example of Nagasaki, but that was essentially the same thing — that ended a war," Trump said, adding, "This ended [the Israel-Iran] war. If we didn’t take [out the nuclear facilities], they would be fighting right now."

While making the comparison, Trump said that the intelligence leak that said that the US strikes had set back Iran's nuclear programme by only a few months was inconclusive. He also said that the damage that was done to Fardow, Natanz and Isfahan could not be assessed fully till Israel delivered an assessment.

He also said that the US Defence Intelligence Agency, which had put together the report, did not really now about the damage that the US strikes inflicted in Iranian sites. "I think Israel is going to be telling us very soon.”

“I can say here, the assessment is that we severely damaged the nuclear programme, and pushed it back years," IDF spokesperson Effie Defrin said.

While Trump, Sectretary of State Marco Rubio and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said that Fordow was "obliterated", Dan Cline, who is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Stadd, on Sunday, said that while initial assessments had said that the three sites had suffered extremely severe damage, final; assessments would take some time. Hegseth also said that the Pentagon, along with the FBI, is investigating the intelligence report leak.

Iran and Israel agreed on a ceasefire on Tuesday, after 12 days of attacking each other.