Trump carpets Israel, Iran for ceasefire Violations
..Says Iran Can’t Rebuild Nuclear Programme
By Yadnom Awu/
Asaba
American President, Donald Trump, has strongly criticised both Iran and Israel, particularly the latter, for the brief breach of the ceasefire between them.
The ceasefire came into early this morning , but shortly afterwards, both countries accused the other of breaching it.
While Israel accused Iran of firing two missiles at it, Iran accused Israel of launching strikes even after the ceasefire kicked in.
Addressing the media shortly as he made to fly to the Netherlands for the ongoing two- day meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, Trump expressed displeasure at the breaches.
He particularly blamed Israel, saying it was wrong for it to have responded for a single missile attack from Iran that might not have been officially sanctioned.
The American President warned Israel that any further breaches would be regarded as a major violation.
He assured that he would ensure that the ceasefire would abide.
Minutes later, he tweeted that the ” the ceasefire is back in effect”.
Trump also dropped a hint of the American position on Iran’ s nuclear programme.
According to him, Iran would never ” rebuild’ its nuclear programme.
His comment has created doubt regarding its real meaning since the initial condition was for Iran to limit its nuclear programme to civil, rather than military, purposes.
On America’ s military strike on the nuclear facilities of Iran, Trump said it was as effective as it could not have been better, adding that the pilots who made the sorties did such an excellent job that ” the facilities are no more.”
He criticized the Cable Nrex Network, CNN, for saying the operation, tagged, Midnight Hammer, was not entirely successful sx was being portrayed .
Security and related experts had said the extent of damage could not be fully known until there was a proximate close up physical examination was carried out.
That examination has yet to be carried out, but the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, which is the United Nations (UN) watchdog on nuclear power matters, has not been given the permission by Iran to visit for the inspection.
