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Trump puts Iran on notice: U.S. could hit its nuclear site "in five minutes"

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President Trump warned Sunday that the U.S. could strike an Iranian nuclear site within minutes if Tehran tries to move its enriched uranium, Fox News reported.

Asked by reporters about U.S. Central Command offering a reward for information on Iran moving nuclear material, Trump said: "If they are, we want to know about it and we'll take them out. But we have not seen it."

"We know exactly what's going on with Pickaxe Mountain, as an example," Trump said, according to Fox News. "We never hit Pickax because there was no activity there. But we could do that in five minutes if we needed to."

Trump also said he would make the same decision on Iran again. "If you had it to do again, would you do it again? The answer is 'yes,'" he said. "This historically for history will go down as one of the best things we ever did. Because if they ever had a nuclear weapon, they would blow up the world."

He also defended Secretary of War Pete Hegseth against impeachment calls, saying Hegseth is "guilty of two things: basically winning two wars," and that the Iran strikes "knocked out their nuclear capacity and probably saved Israel and probably saved the Middle East."

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  1. Nov 8 · 7:32 PM ET

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