US President Donald Trump says the United States is willing to wait a few days for the “right answer” from Iran, as talks are right “on the borderline.”
“It’s right on the borderline, if we don’t get the right answers, it goes very quickly,” he tells reporters just after stepping off Air Force One. “We’re all ready to go.”
The president says that “we have to get the right answers [from Iran], so it’d have to be complete 100% good answers, and if we do, we save a lot of time, energy and lives.”
Trump says that it “could be a few days, but it could go very quickly.” He says the US is dealing with Iran with “people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us… so hopefully those people will make a deal that’s going to be great for everyone.”
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