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Friday, February 13, 2026
Trump: I’d love to make a deal, but Iran has been ‘difficult’
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US President Donald Trump says Iran has been “difficult” to deal with in negotiations toward a nuclear deal.
“We have a situation right now where we have sent a very big carrier group to Iran,” Trump says in remarks to soldiers at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
“I would love to see if we could make a deal. They’ve been difficult to make a deal with,” he says.
“I thought we would have had a deal last time. They wish they did and that’s what we did, Midnight Hammer,” Trump says, referring to the June operation in which the US struck several of Iran’s nuclear facilities.
“Sometimes you have to have fear. That’s the only thing that really will get the situation taken care of,” he adds.
#WATCH | US President Donald Trump says, "We have a situation right now where we have sent a very big carrier group to Iran. I would love to see if we could make a deal. They've been difficult to make a deal with. I thought we would have had a deal last time. They wish they did… pic.twitter.com/q0iBb9u14P
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