Trump Claims Credit for Ending Israel-Iran War, Compares US Strikes to Hiroshima
In a dramatic statement on Wednesday, United States President Donald Trump asserted that American military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities were the decisive factor in ending the recent 12-day war between Israel and Iran.
Speaking to reporters in The Hague during the NATO Summit, Trump claimed that the precision strikes carried out by the US essentially forced Iran to step back, bringing the hostilities to a halt.
“The hit ended the war,” Trump declared. “I don’t want to use the example of Hiroshima or Nagasaki, but it’s essentially the same thing — that thing ended that war, this thing ended this war.”
Trump was referring to last week’s US airstrikes on three major Iranian nuclear sites — Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz — carried out with advanced ‘bunker buster’ bombs.
These strikes, he claimed, left Iran “reeling” and convinced the regime to abandon its nuclear ambitions. “They went through hell. I don’t think they’ll ever do it again,” he added.
The conflict, which erupted after Israel launched Operation Rising Lion targeting Iranian nuclear infrastructure, quickly escalated with Iran’s counter-offensive, Operation True Promise 3, unleashing missile barrages on Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities.
Tensions further intensified when Iran launched a retaliatory attack on a US military base in Qatar, mere hours before the ceasefire was brokered.
Although the ceasefire faced initial challenges, with both sides trading accusations of violations, the truce — said to have been facilitated by Trump himself — has largely held since Tuesday.
A day after the agreement, signs of de-escalation began to emerge. Iran lifted the emergency internet restrictions imposed during the conflict, and Israel fully reopened its airspace, resuming operations at Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion Airport.
In a striking comment, Trump claimed the war had forced Iran to reconsider its nuclear strategy. “They had been trying to enrich… by the way, it is hard to enrich.
They spent trillions of dollars trying to do this thing, but they couldn’t pull it off,” he said, suggesting that Tehran’s nuclear ambitions had been crushed by the strikes.
Despite this, Iran’s parliament on Wednesday passed a bill to limit cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), stating that any further engagement would require approval from the Supreme National Security Council.
President Trump also appeared to challenge US intelligence assessments that claimed Iran’s nuclear program had not been fully dismantled. “We’re getting along with them very well right now,” he insisted.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meanwhile, hailed the outcome, claiming that his country had neutralized two existential threats — a nuclear-armed Iran and the threat posed by 20,000 Iranian ballistic missiles.
As the dust settles in both Tehran and Tel Aviv, no new missile strikes have been reported, and air traffic is expected to resume over Iranian skies by Thursday afternoon.
While the long-term effects of the brief but intense conflict remain uncertain, Trump’s declaration has added a new dimension to the geopolitical narrative — one where he claims to have personally authored peace through precision firepower.
