President Donald Trump is suggesting that the Iran war stopped another Holocaust from taking place.
The president shared a link on Truth Social on Thursday to an opinion article from Israel National News making the claim.
“President Trump has prevented a Holocaust in both America and Israel,” the piece, which argues the war will eliminate Iran’s nuclear capabilities once and for all, reads. “One day the world will give him the credit he deserves.”
One of the article’s authors is Jonathan Burkan, whom the Trump administration appointed to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council last year.
The president himself has repeatedly made a similar argument, claiming he prevented a nuclear Holocaust by striking Iran last year and pulling out of the JCPOA nuclear deal with Iran during his first term, which had instituted various oversight mechanisms and restrictions on the Middle Eastern nation.
"If I didn't terminate Obama's horrible deal, the Iran nuclear deal, you would've had nuclear holocaust,” Trump said at the White House earlier this week.
Considerable ambiguity remains about what Iran’s nuclear capacity was in the lead-up to the war and how the U.S. plans to approach the matter now.
During congressional testimony on Wednesday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declined to answer whether Iran presented an “imminent” nuclear threat before the war began late last month, even though a written version of her statement said Iran’s nuclear capabilities had been “obliterated” with “no efforts since” to rebuild after U.S. strikes last year.
Lawmakers say the administration hasn’t presented detailed explanations of what it plans to do with Iran’s nuclear stockpile if the U.S. wins the war.
The White House did not appear to have “a plan for that nuclear stockpile of enriched uranium—to destroy [it], to seize it, or to put it under international inspection,” Democratic Rep. Bill Foster said earlier this month after a classified briefing.
The fate of Iran’s nuclear program will be determined by the outcome of the war and its political aftermath, according to experts.
”A regime that is compliant with US requirements may wish to take measures to safeguard the stockpile and could even allow inspections to resume,” Jennifer T. Gordon, the director of the Nuclear Energy Policy Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center, writes in a recent expert briefing. “However, if the regime feels that it remains under threat, then it could be more motivated to rebuild military and nuclear weapons capabilities. Additionally, if Iran devolves into political chaos and civil war, then the stockpile could fall into the hands of rogue elements with nefarious purposes.”
The main option for securing the stockpile, whose exact composition is unclear after last year’s strikes, may be U.S. boots on the ground in Iran, though there are no clear plans to send any.
“No one has given me a briefing on how you would do it without boots on the ground,” Sen. Rick Scott told The Associated Press. “It doesn’t mean you can’t. But no one’s ever briefed me about it.”
The president has brushed off questions about whether he will send U.S. troops there.
“No, I'm not putting troops anywhere,” he said at the White House on Thursday, adding, “If I were, I certainly wouldn't tell you.”
The Trump administration is facing increasing scrutiny over the war effort, which has sent global oil prices spiking, spawned Iranian attacks on U.S. allies in the Gulf region, and left 13 American service members dead.
This week, Joe Ken resigned as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, writing in an open letter that he could not “in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran” because Iran posed “no imminent threat to our nation.”
The conflict has also driven a wedge between the U.S. and its European allies, whom Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has branded as “ungrateful” for not aiding American forces as they seek to reopen the vital Strait of Hormuz.
The administration is reportedly seeking $200 billion in supplemental funding for the war, on top of the $1 trillion Pentagon budget lawmakers approved last year.
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