US President Donald Trump says the US will “leave” Iran in “two to three weeks” when they are certain the regime cannot build a nuclear weapon “for years”.
He says while Iran is “begging to make a deal”, whether it happens is “irrelevant” to America’s timetable. His latest comments delivered in the Oval Office come ahead of a national address on Iran Trump is scheduled to make on Wednesday night Washington local time.
Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian has said his country has the “necessary will” to end the war with the United States and Israel as long as certain conditions are met.
Trump told reporters the US “will be leaving [Iran] very soon” and US military action could end as soon as “two or three weeks”
He says the US has achieved the goals set before airstrikes against Iran began late last month in conjunction with Israel.
He says the primary goal of curtailing Iran’s ability to obtain a nuclear weapon has been reached and the US was now “finishing the job”
Trump says the US now dominates Iranian skies and has also achieved regime change following the killings of many senior political and military leaders. He described the new leaders in Tehran as “much less radicalised” and “more rational” compared to their predecessors
He said once the US was sure Iran would not be able to “come up with a nuclear weapon” then “we’ll leave whether we have a deal or not. It’s irrelevant now, it’s possible that we’ll have a deal because they want to make a deal”.
He went on to say Iranian leaders are “begging to make a deal” with the US to end the war, which has previously been denied by Iran
He adds that the war could end without a deal brokered between both sides
On the war’s impact on rising fuel prices, the president says they will come down as soon as the US ends its military actions.
