President Donald Trump has delivered an official statement reacting to Iran’s retaliatory attack on military bases housing the United States’ troops in Iraq.
The US president on Wednesday, January 8, said no Americans or Iraqis were harmed in the attack, adding that the bases had minimal damage.
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Trump also said Iran “appeared to be standing down” just as he said that the US is ready to embrace.
He, however, vowed to impose new sanctions on Iran as a result of the retaliatory attack, CNN reports.
He said the “powerful sanctions” will remain until Iran changes its behaviour. “The United States will immediately impose additional punishing economic sanctions on the Iranian regime,” President Trump was quoted to have said
After receiving billions from the last administration, Iran went on a terror spree. pic.twitter.com/XgfU5W4W9X
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 8, 2020
Trump also vowed that Iran would never have a nuclear weapon as long as he is the president of the US.
The US president added that he will ask the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to get more involved in the crisis in the Middle East.
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