{"id":336363,"date":"2026-04-24T14:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=336363"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:02:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:02:57","slug":"trump-rules-out-using-a-nuclear-weapon-in-the-war-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=336363","title":{"rendered":"Trump rules out using a nuclear weapon in the war against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">WASHINGTON (dpa) - US&nbsp;President Donald Trump on Thursday ruled out using a nuclear weapon in the war against Iran.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">\"Why would I use a nuclear weapon? We've totally, in a very conventional way, decimated \u200bthem without it,\" Trump told reporters at \u200bthe White House.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">\"No, I wouldn't \u200buse it. A nuclear weapon should never be allowed \u200bto be used by anybody.\"<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Asked about the prospect of a long-term peace agreement with Iran, Trump replied, \"Don't rush me.\"<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Trump fuelled fears of a possible use of nuclear weapons in early April when he threatened to wipe out Iranian \"civilization\" if Tehran did not meet his demands.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">The US and Israel began attacks on Iran on February 28. A two-week ceasefire began on April 8 and was unilaterally extended on Tuesday.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Nuclear weapons have been used in combat only twice in history, both times by the US against Japan during the closing days of World War II.\n\n--NNN-dpa<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (dpa) &#8211; US&nbsp;President Donald Trump on Thursday ruled out using a nuclear weapon in the war against Iran. &#8220;Why would I use a nuclear weapon? We&#8217;ve totally, in a very conventional way, decimated \u200bthem without it,&#8221; Trump told reporters at \u200bthe White House. &#8220;No, I wouldn&#8217;t \u200buse it. A nuclear weapon should never be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":318384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,217,296,341],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336363"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336375,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336363\/revisions\/336375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/318384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}