US President Trump said that he was “an hour away” from making the decision to attack Iran today before several Middle Eastern governments called to ask him to wait several days, while talking to reporters on Tuesday.
“We were all set to go. We were going to be striking. It would have been happening right now,” Trump said.
He added that a call on Monday specified that they were close to a deal.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, and “a few of the others” were working with the US “like a team,” Trump said.
Trump said that he would be waiting as few as two days or as long as until early next week.
He warned that if Iran were to have a nuclear weapon, it would lead to a “nuclear holocaust,” in which Iran would bomb first Israel and then the rest of the Middle East.
This is a developing story.
