'B-2 pilots told me...': Trump's latest claim on Iran strikes; US president credits himself for decision

Patting his own back, Donald Trump claimed on Sunday (local time) that the B-2 bomber pilots who carried out Operation Midnight Hammer in Iran had told him that no previous US president had the courage to order such a mission.

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"...you had a tremendous success with the strike that we had getting rid of nuclear weapons in Iran. When the pilots came to my office, they were there with some of the other people having to do with that strike. They said something very interesting. They said, 'You know, we've been practicing this for 22 years, but no President had the guts to tell us to do it,'" he told reporters speaking to them on the first anniversary of the assassination attempt on him.


Trump also rated the operation as a "15 out of 10."


"I would say that from 0 to 10, with 10 being the best, that attack was a 15," he stated.

US B-2 Spirit bombers conducted airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites on June 22, amid the conflict between the United States' closest ally Israel and their common foe Iran.

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The Israel-Iran conflict began on June 13, with a surprise Israeli operation on the Islamic Republic's nuclear and military facilities. The hostilities ended on June 24, after Trump brokered a ceasefire between the Asian rivals, but not before Iran carried out retaliatory missile strikes on an American military base in Qatar, Washington's largest in the region.