North Korea hoped to offer Iran nuclear bomb ‘days’ earlier than Trump launched missile blitz
Donald Trump’s former chief adviser has declared that Iran was potentially days away from paying Kim Jong Un’s North Korea tosecretly transfer nuclear weapons via Russia
Bolton claimed Iran could have been days away from obtaining nukes (Image: JUSTIN LANE/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
The late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is reported to have looked at getting North Korean nuclear weapons shipped to Tehran just days before the US and Israeli joint attack on his country.
Trump’s former chief adviser John Bolton told the Sun’s Harry Cole that the Middle Eastern country had been in contact with Pyongyang, and that Iran was as much as mere days away from striking a deal with dictator Kim Jong Un.
Korea would be able to “put a nuclear device on an aeroplane, route it through Russia” and get it to Iran within 72 hours, once they had received a wire transfer payment.
“And the ties between North Korea and Iran, both on ballistic missiles and the nuclear side, are quite real,” Bolton added.
If Bolton’s claims are true, it would mean Tehran was just days away from being able to strike targets much further away than its Middle Eastern neighbours, and could potentially have launched retaliatory strikes towards both the US and Europe.
The former Trump man explained that he felt Iran and North Korea collaborating was all part of a wider axis forming against the West.
“Let’s face it, in the China-Russia axis that’s forming right now, Iran and North Korea are two outriders, and so the cooperation between them is very threatening.”
“I just think it’s a convincing argument [for] why you need a normal regime in Iran.”, he added, referencing US reasoning for their attacks on Iran.
Bolton admitted there was a degree of complexity in predicting the future of Iranian rule, but said that anything would be better than a government seeking the capability to strike the US and its many allies.
“It could be a military government. It could be a democracy. At least it’s not run by a bunch of theocratic extremists and militarists that want nuclear weapons – that is the big change.”
Bolton served as National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump from April 2018 to September 2019, and has previously commented that he thinks the US should have bombed Iran sooner.
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