Christiane Amanpour explains what’s next for Iran and Israel | LBC
Christiane Amanpour joined Andrew Marr what happens next for both Iran and Israel, following Donald Trump's sweary outburst on Tuesday. The US President's fury seems to have settled the ceasefire, but for how long it is unclear. Amanpour told Marr no one 'knows where Iran's nukes are,' and that 'robust diplomacy' is the only solution to quashing any future threat from the Islamic Republic. Iran has finally admitted its nuclear sites were ‘badly damaged’ by US attacks as Donald Trump doubled down and claimed American strikes had set back the country’s nuclear programme by ‘decades’. Nato chief Mark Rutte suggested Mr Trump dealt with Israel and Iran’s war in the Middle East like a ‘daddy’ stopping children fighting in a schoolyard. During a press conference ahead of a NATO summit, Trump compared the attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities to the nuclear bombs dropped on Japan at the end of World War II. “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 that war,” Mr Trump said. A row had erupted over the scale of damage done to Iran’s nuclear weapons capabilities. According to a leaked intelligence report, the US strikes only set Iran back by a matter of months. But Trump today insisted the attacks had set back the programme by ‘decades’. Iran meanwhile simply said the sites had been ‘badly damaged’ but refused to elaborate further.