Trump on Iran: ‘I Think We Have a Very Strong Position Right Now’

‘Already, it’ll take them many years to ever rebuild, and if I go back and finish up the job as some people would like with the bridges... it takes them ten years to build a bridge’

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TRUMP: “You know, I think about 91 million people without power, without bridges, with that to live, and it’s a very delicate balance. So I think we have a very strong position right now. They know I'm gonna do that if they don’t make a deal, the bridges are going to be gone literally in less than — I would say in two hours, most of the bridges, the major bridges will all be gone, and the power plants in one day. You know, if I can avoid doing that, I'd like to do it The hardest thing to build is a power plant, the longest thing to build is a bridge, I takes a long time to rebuild and build bridges. See, that’s what I used for living, construction. It takes years to build these things. You know, you knock them out in one hour and it takes many years, you know, it really decimates a country. So those are the two big things. And then there’s always desalinization plants. And who am I hurting there? I'm hurting the people. So I’m not looking to do that. I just want, very simply, they cannot have a nuclear weapon. Very simple. And they’ve agreed with that, essentially. We need to get them to make it formal,  but they've agreed to it."

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