Trump vows to 'knock the hell out of' Iran if nuclear program is rebuilt again after high-stakes meeting

President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States and Israel person already destroyed Iran’s atomic programme and warned that Tehran would look renewed subject enactment if it attempts to rebuild, arsenic caller reports allege the authorities is pursuing chemic and biologic warheads for its ballistic missiles.

Speaking astatine Mar-a-Lago alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump issued a blunt informing to Tehran implicit its atomic and rocket ambitions.

"Now I perceive that Iran is trying to physique up again, and if they are, we’re going to person to sound them down," Trump said. "We’ll sound the hellhole retired of them." He added that Iran would beryllium "much smarter" to prosecute a deal.

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US President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Jim Waston/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump framed Iran’s decision arsenic cardinal to determination stability, claiming associated U.S.-Israeli subject enactment had fundamentally altered the Middle East balance.

"We conscionable won a large warfare together," helium said. "If we didn’t bushed Iran, you wouldn’t person had bid successful the Middle East. We wiped it out."

Pressed connected whether helium would enactment further Israeli subject enactment if Iran continues advancing its rocket oregon atomic programs, Trump responded affirmatively. "If they proceed with the missiles — yes," helium said. "The atomic — absolutely."

The Trump-Netanyahu gathering came arsenic Iran’s currency has deed grounds lows, and shopkeepers successful Tehran person staged strikes implicit soaring ostentation and a collapsing economy.

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Iranian worshippers clasp up their hands arsenic signs of unity with Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during an anti-Israeli rally to condemn Israel's attacks connected Iran, successful downtown Tehran, Iran, connected June 20, 2025.  (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Asked whether helium would enactment the overthrow of Iran’s regime, Trump rejected the thought portion pointing to unrest wrong the country.

"I’m not going to speech astir overthrow of a regime," helium said. "But they person tremendous inflation. Their system is busted." Trump added that protests are often met with lethal unit by Iranian authorities.

The remarks followed a study Sunday by Iran International alleging that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is accelerating enactment connected unconventional rocket payloads, including chemic and biologic options, citing unnamed subject and information sources.

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This outer representation provided by Maxar Technologies shows harm astatine the Fordo enrichment installation successful Iran aft U.S. strikes, Sunday, June 22, 2025. (Maxar Technologies via AP) (Maxar Technologies via AP)

Iran denies pursuing chemic oregon biologic weapons and maintains its rocket programme is defensive. Tehran ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention successful 1997 and analysts accidental the reported developments acceptable a broader pattern.

"The information that Tehran’s ballistic missiles tin transportation unconventional payloads is not new," said Behnam Taleblu, a elder chap astatine the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

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Iranian pro-government supporters clasp a elephantine Palestine emblem astatine Palestine Square successful Tehran, connected April 14, 2024, successful a solemnisation of the aboriginal greeting Iran's IRGC onslaught connected Israel.  (Photo by Hossein Beris / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP)

Taleblu pointed to Iran’s caller subject behavior. 

"What should underscore the chemic menace was Tehran’s usage of warheads with clump munitions against Israel during the 12-day war," helium said. "These warheads tin easy transportation canisters for poison gas. In short, the struggle contained a adust tally for a imaginable chemic attack."

He added that Iran’s past heightens concern, citing Tehran’s past usage of chemic agents during the Iran-Iraq War successful the 1980s and its transportation of specified weapons to Libya.