Trump: Oct. 7 wouldn’t have happened if I were president, Iran was broke but is now close to nuke

The Times of Israel-July18th2024

By JACOB MAGID

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin — Former president Donald Trump reiterates his claim that Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel would not have happened if he were president in his speech at the Republican National Convention in which he accepts his party’s nomination for president.

“I will end every single international crisis that the current administration has created, including the horrible war with Russia and Ukraine — which would have never happened if I was president — and the war caused by the attack on Israel, which would have never happened if I was president,” Trump says.

“Iran was broke. Iran had no money. Now Iran has $250 billion. They made it all over the last two and a half years,” he adds, saying the Biden administration has provided Tehran sanctions relief.

“I told China and other countries if you buy from Iran, we will not let you do any business in this country.”

He repeats his claim that Iran was on the verge of agreeing to negotiate a new deal to more strictly curb its nuclear program before Trump lost the 2020 election.

“Iran was going to make a deal with us, and then we had that horrible, horrible result that we will never let happen again,” the former president says, repeating his false claim that the election was stolen from him.

“Now Iran is very close to having a nuclear weapon, which would have never happened.”

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