President Donald Trump said he is less confident that Iran will agree to a revised nuclear deal but insisted Tehran will not obtain a nuclear weapon under any circumstances.
Speaking on the debut episode of Pod Force One with the New York Post's Miranda Devine, Trump said, “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.”
“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 to have a nuclear weapon,” he said.
“But it would be nicer to do it without warfare, without people dying, it’s so much nicer to do it. But I don’t think I see the same level of enthusiasm for them to make a deal. I think they would make a mistake, but we’ll see. I guess time will tell.”
On external influences, Trump denied China’s role in Iran’s resistance, saying, “I just think maybe they don’t want to make a deal.”
His remarks follow new claims from the exiled National Council of Resistance of Iran that Tehran has spent $2 trillion on its nuclear program in the last three decades, pointing to the so-called “Kavir Plan”—a suspected covert weapons project—as evidence that “Tehran’s dash to obtain nuclear weapons has intensified.”
