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Trump claims Iran’s made concessions, before admitting that they’re not final
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleJacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
US President Donald Trump says Iran has offered concessions in the nuclear talks, before admitting that those proposals aren’t final.
“We’ve gotten concessions, now they have to hold [to] those concessions,” Trump tells reporters in the Oval Office.
Trump insists that the US will be allowed to extract Iran’s stockpiles of highly enriched uranium, even though Tehran has never confirmed agreeing to that.
The US president then goes on to insist that the goal of the war was never to collapse the Iranian regime, even though on the first night of the operation, he called on Iranians to take over their government once the US-Israeli bombing campaign ceased.
“We’re close to maybe making a deal… I don’t know. We’re going to win one way or the other. Either we’re going to make a deal, or we’re going to finish the job,” Trump repeats.
However, talks between the US and Iran aren’t currently taking place, as the sides agreed to pause for the week of the slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei’s funeral proceedings.
“I’d rather make a deal because I don’t want to affect 91 million people,” he adds, noting that he has held off on targeting much of Iran’s civilian infrastructure but could decide to do so if deemed necessary.
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