President Donald Trump has likened Washington’s strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities to the US dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II, AFP reports.

“Actually, if you look at Hiroshima, if you look at Nagasaki, you know that ended a war too,” Trump said as he wrapped up Nato’s summit in The Hague.

“This ended a war in a different way, but it was so devastating.”

“Was it bad? It was really bad,” Trump said. “It was obliterated.”