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Friday, May 16, 2025
Trump: Iran nuclear issue will be solved ‘one way or another’
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US President Donald Trump says Iran’s nuclear program will be dealt with “one way or another,” in remarks to the press in Abu Dhabi.
Visiting the US-UAE Business Council, he says a solution to the conflict over Iran’s nuclear program will be “done nicely” — through an agreement — “or not nicely” — apparently referring to potential military action.
“We are talking to them, I think they’ve come a long way,” he adds.
Though Tehran and Washington have both said they prefer diplomacy to resolve the dispute, they remain divided on several red lines that negotiators will have to circumvent to reach a new deal and avert future military action.
Iran, which openly seeks Israel’s destruction, has ramped up its enrichment of uranium to 60 percent purity, which has no peaceful application, and has obstructed international inspectors from examining its nuclear facilities.
Iranian authorities have repeatedly said that their red lines include reducing the amount of highly enriched uranium stockpile to a level below what was agreed under Iran’s 2015 nuclear pact with world powers, which Trump ditched in 2018.
Tehran denies it has ever sought to build a nuclear weapon, but Western intelligence services mistrust such claims, and Iranian officials have increasingly suggested the country could seek nukes in the face of international pressure.
The Times of Israel Community.