TURNBERRY: President Donald Trump warned on Monday that he would order fresh US attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities should Tehran try to restart facilities that the United States bombed last month.

Trump issued the threat as he held talks with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at his Turnberry golf resort on the western coast of Scotland.

Trump told reporters Iran has been sending out “nasty signals” and any effort to restart its nuclear program would be immediately quashed.

“We wiped out their nuclear possibilities. They can start again. If they do, we’ll wipe it out faster than you can wave your finger at it,” Trump said.

He also warned that the people of Gaza are facing “real starvation”, as aid agencies sought to take advantage of an Israeli “tactical pause” of some military operations to rush in food aid.

Trump said the US and its partners would help set up food centres to feed the more than two million Palestinians in Gaza facing what UN aid agencies have warned is a deadly wave of starvation and malnutrition.

“We’re going to be getting some good strong food, we can save a lot of people. I mean, some of those kids -- that’s real starvation stuff,” he said, adding: “We have to get the kids fed.” His remarks came after Netanyahu declared on Sunday that “there is no starvation in Gaza, no policy of starvation in Gaza.”

Published in Dawn, July 29th, 2025