US President Donald Trump claimed on Monday that Iran has been deliberately delaying a nuclear take care of the USA. He cautioned Tehran in opposition to a drive for a nuclear weapon, saying it might should face a navy strike if it did not desist from its actions.
Iran and the USA officers met in Oman and held “optimistic” and “constructive” talks final week. A second spherical is scheduled for Saturday.
Donald Trump stated that Tehran should forgo the idea of getting a nuclear weapon. “Iran has to do away with the idea of a nuclear weapon. They can not have a nuclear weapon,” he stated.
Requested if the US choices for a response embrace a navy strike on Tehran’s nuclear services, Trump stated: “After all it does.”
He stated Iran is pretty near creating a nuclear weapon, and they should transfer quick on the deal or face a harsh response.
Donald Trump stated that Iran additionally needs to take care of the USA.
“Iran needs to take care of us, however they don’t know the way. They don’t know the way,” Trump stated Monday as he met with El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele within the Oval Workplace. “We had a gathering with them on Saturday. Now we have one other assembly scheduled subsequent Saturday. That’s a very long time. You understand, that’s a very long time. So, I feel they is perhaps tapping us alongside,” he added.
Trump’s downbeat tone got here regardless of negotiators from each nations saying {that a} assembly Saturday in Oman’s capital of Muscat — headed by Steve Witkoff, Trump’s major Center East envoy, and Iranian Overseas Minister Abbas Araghchi — had been constructive.
Trump sidestepped a query about whether or not he shared that evaluation, saying merely that Iran can’t be allowed to get a nuclear weapon, and that the US would contemplate “one thing very harsh” if essential.
Iran claims its nuclear program is for peaceable functions. Nevertheless, specialists say it’s producing enriched uranium in quantities sufficient to provide one bomb each month.
The US protection secretary, Pete Hegseth, stated on Sunday that the nation’s navy was able to “go deep and to go huge” in opposition to Iran if a diplomatic resolution to Tehran’s nuclear ambition wasn’t discovered.
Trump stated final week that navy motion was “completely” doable – along with Israel – if the talks in Oman failed.
With inputs from AFP, AP, Bloomberg
