Trump: ‘I don’t know if we’ll be able’ to make a deal to end Iran war; a nuclear Iran would target Israel first, then the neighbors, then us
Three days after US President Donald Trump declared that an agreement with Iran to end the ongoing war was likely, he now expresses more skepticism about those chances.
“I don’t know if we’ll be able to do that,” Trump says in opening remarks at a cabinet meeting. “They’re lousy fighters, but they’re great negotiators.”
Trump still insists that he’s not the one desperate for an agreement: “They are begging to make a deal. Not me.”
“We estimated [at the beginning of the war] it would take approximately four to six weeks to achieve our mission. Twenty-six days in, we’re extremely extremely ahead of schedule,” Trump claims.
“If they make the right deal, then the Strait [of Hormuz] will open up,” Trump adds.
Earlier today, Trump wrote on Truth Social that Iran’s negotiators are acting “strange” and that “they better get serious soon… [or] it won’t be pretty.”
Trump repeats his contention that the regime in Iran was on track to get nuclear weapons within two-to-four weeks when the US resorted to bombing its nuclear sites last June. If they had attained the bomb, he says, they would have used it — and first on Israel.
“They want to take over the Middle East, not just Israel,” he says of the regime. “Certainly, Israel would have been the first on their list… They would have used a nuclear weapon on Israel and they would have used it on the other neighbors. And then they would have come after us.”
