Donald Trump, the U.S. president, said on Wednesday on the sidelines of the NATO summit: “Now we are doing things about Iran that should have been done 47 years ago. If you look at Iran, you can see that its army was effectively destroyed within just a few weeks.”

He added: “We have the strongest army in the world; by a very large margin, and no army can be compared with it.”

Trump said: “The Islamic Republic has been completely shattered; its radars, much of its missile launcher capacity, and most of its combat capability have been wiped out, and its leaders no longer exist

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