The US Republican Party presidential candidate, Donald Trump, said Israel should strike Iran’s nuclear facilities in response to Tehran’s recent missile barrage, Al Jazeera reports.

The former president, speaking at a campaign event in North Carolina yesterday, referred to a question posed to US President Joe Biden this week about the possibility of Israel targeting Iran’s nuclear programme.

“When they asked him that question, the answer should have been, hit the nuclear first and worry about the rest later,” Trump said.