 "'I'm much less confident': Trump on whether US can reach nuclear deal with Iran")
US President Donald Trump has said that he is now “less confident” than he was two months ago about reaching a nuclear deal with Iran.
Two days after he rejected the Iranian counter-proposal , Trump told New York Post’s ‘Pod Force One’ podcast that Iran appears to be delaying talks and he is no longer confident about reaching a deal.
“I don’t know. I did think so, and I’m getting more and more — less confident about it. They seem to be delaying, and I think that’s a shame, but I’m less confident now than I would have been a couple of months ago. Something happened to them, but I am much less confident of a deal being made,” said Trump.
The Trump administration and Iran have held five rounds of talks, but the two sides are at loggerheads over the issue of uranium enrichment, with Iran saying it should be allowed to enrich uranium for purported civilian purposes and the Trump administration maintaining that Iran would not be allowed any enrichment.
The talks are aimed at reaching a deal seven years after Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal of 2015 that was negotiated by the Barak Obama administration. Thet talks also seek a reset of the US-Iran relationship. The talks are taking place at a time when Iran has ramped up the development of near-weapons grade uranium and has reduced the time needed to develop a nuclear weapon once the go-ahead comes from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
Trump threatens war if no deal is reached
Irrespective of Iran signing a deal, it would not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon, but it would be preferable to ensure such an outcome with a deal instead of a war, said Trump.
“Well, if they don’t make a deal, they’re not going to have a nuclear weapon. If they do make a deal, they’re not going have a nuclear weapon, too, you know? But they’re not going a have a new nuclear weapon, so it’s not going to matter from that standpoint. But it would be nicer to do it without warfare, without people dying, it’s so much nicer to do it,” said Trump.
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More ShortsEarlier on Monday, Trump had warned Iran that the failure to reach a deal could lead to “death and destruction” in Iran.
Trump further told The Post that he does not see the “same level of enthusiasm for them to make a deal”.
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