US President Donald Trump has claimed that Israel and the entire Middle East would not exist today if he had not stopped Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.

In a post on his Truth Social platform on Friday 6 November, Mr Trump credited his actions against Iran with preventing what he described as an existential threat to the region. "Israel and, in fact, the entire Middle East, WOULD NOT EXIST TODAY if I did not stop Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon," he wrote. "Nobody wants to say that, but everybody knows it's true!"

The claim is Mr Trump's own assessment of what might have happened. The post offered no new evidence to support it, and it did not explain in detail which specific measures he was referring to when he said he had stopped Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

The remarks came as Mr Trump defended his decision to launch the war on Iran, even after his party suffered heavy losses in the midterm elections on 3 November, when Democrats took control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Vice President JD Vance has blamed the war in Iran for the scale of the defeat, while Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has defended the military campaign, known as Operation Epic Fury, as a "courageous and historic effort".

Mr Trump is still weighing whether to resume military operations against Tehran. Senior Iranian officials have told Reuters that Tehran sent a new nuclear proposal to Washington through Qatar, and the president has said his administration is "doing very well with Iran" and talking to Tehran.

His latest comments also came days after he announced that the United States would stop providing around $4 billion in annual military aid to Israel by the end of 2026.

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