"Like Absolute Butter": Trump On How US Struck Iran's Fordow Nuclear Site

 "Like ebony butter": Trump on US strike on Iran's Fordow nuclear facility

The bombs from an American B-2 stealth fighter jet passed through Iran's heavily fortified Fordow nuclear facility "like butter", US President Donald Trump has said.

New Delhi:

The bombs from an American B-2 stealth fighter jet passed through Iran's heavily fortified Fordow nuclear facility "like butter", US President Donald Trump has said.

Speaking to Fox News, Trump said, "They were trying to seal the entrance where the bomb was most likely to enter, and they did. They were working on it and the bomb went through like butter, like it was absolute butter."

He also said that the June 22 strikes on Iran's three nuclear facilities - Fordow, Natanz and Iffahan - "destroyed" the country's nuclear program. Fordow was known as one of the country's most secret and heavily guarded sites, hidden deep in a mountain and designed to prevent airstrikes and foreign interference.

Trump said the bunker-busting bombing reduced Fordow to "just thousands of tons of rock." He also stressed that highly enriched uranium had not been removed from the site before the attack, Israeli officials claimed to The New York Times.

"I think it was very difficult to do at first. It was very dangerous to do. It was very, very heavy. It was very difficult to do. "Also, we didn't give much notice because they didn't know we were coming," he said.

The attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities came as the Iran-Israel conflict escalated, with both countries carrying out strikes since June 13. The United States claims it gave Tehran an ultimatum to stop enriching uranium, which it failed to meet, prompting the strikes, which used high-tech weapons, including the dreaded GBU-57 bunker buster and Tomahawk cruise missiles.

The remarks came a day after Trump said Tehran's nuclear program was decades behind schedule, with the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi, saying Iran would likely be able to start producing enriched uranium "within months."

Trump also said on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" that U.S. trade talks with Canada would be on hold "until they remove certain tariffs."

He also said a group of buyers had been found for TikTok, which Facing sanctions in the United States over its ties with China, he added that he could name the buyers within two weeks. "Very wealthy people. It's a group of wealthy people," the president said, without elaborating further, adding that he would reveal their identities "in about two weeks."