President Trump said he doesn’t think Iran will build its nuclear program back up “anytime soon” after the U.S. bombed the country’s three key nuclear facilities, but he said he would bomb the nation again if Iran enriches uranium to build a weapon.

He told reporters at a White House briefing Friday, “Time will tell. … They spent over a trillion dollars on nuclear, and they never got it together.”

Meanwhile, Iran wants to meet, he said while praising the mission that left Iran’s nuclear program under “millions of tons of rock.”

When asked if the demands in a deal with Iran would be no uranium production inside that country, handing over all existing stockpiles and international inspection to assure no new nuclear program, Mr. Trump said an agreement would be “something like that.” 

He reiterated that Iran can’t have a nuke and said he would “sure, without question, absolutely” bomb Iran again if they enriched uranium to an unsafe level.

“It would be years before they could ever get going, and I really think it’s probably the last thing,” he said. “They have to recover from a hell of a tough war.”

Israel started launching strikes on Iran on June 13 over the Iranians’ unwillingness to give up their nuclear program after six rounds of negotiations with the U.S.

For over a week, the two countries were locked in airstrike fights, leading to civilians being killed on both sides.

Mr. Trump announced last weekend that the U.S. decided to strike Iran.

Operation Midnight Hammer included seven B-2 Spirit bombers that flew east from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri to Iran while another group was sent over the Pacific as decoys.

The planes dropped 14 30,000-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs that “totally obliterated” their targets, the president said.

• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.