US President Donald Trump called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “war hero” on Tuesday and said he himself was also one for sending US bombers to hit Iran’s nuclear sites.

In an interview with conservative radio host Mark Levin, Trump, who has no military history beyond attending a military school, said that Netanyahu is “a good man, he’s in there fighting.”

“He’s a war hero, ’cause we worked together. He’s a war hero. I guess I am too.”

“Nobody cares. I am too. I sent those planes,” Trump said, referring to his order to bomb heavily fortified Iranian nuclear facilities during Israel’s 12-day conflict with Iran in June.

He went on to claim that the US had “wiped out the Iran nuclear capabilities that they would have used against Israel in two seconds if they had the chance,” adding that while some tried to claim the damage to Iran wasn’t as bad as he said it was, it “turns out it was even more so. It was obliteration.”

The president has averred multiple times in recent months that the Israeli and US strikes in Iran obliterated its nuclear capabilities, comparing them to the bombs dropped on Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II.

However, a leaked US report in late June stated that the attacks did not destroy Iran’s nuclear........

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