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Trump Claims U.S. “Shouldn’t Have Been in Iran” in Fox News Interview

HeadlineJun 01, 2026

The U.S. attacked Iranian radar and drone sites and the island of Qeshm over the weekend, while Iran said it launched a retaliatory attack on a U.S. base in Kuwait. This comes as Iran’s Foreign Ministry claims that it is not currently engaging in talks with the U.S. on the details of its nuclear program, and that Iran and Oman are the only two countries that have a right to “exercise sovereignty” in the Strait of Hormuz. Despite this, President Trump claimed on social media that “Iran really wants to make a deal.” On Saturday, President Trump said during an interview with his daughter-in-law Lara Trump on Fox News that the U.S. should not have waged war on Iran.

President Donald Trump: “You look at what happened with Iraq. We did so bad. That was such a foolish thing, what we did. Shouldn’t have been there in the first place, by the way, and shouldn’t have been in Iran, but Iran has the capability. If we didn’t hit them with the B-2 bombers nine months ago, they would have a nuclear weapon right now.”

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