Trump says he’s growing ‘less confident’ US will reach a deal with Iran, vows Tehran won’t have nuclear weapons

US President Donald Trump says he is growing “less confident” that he can close a deal with Iran over its nuclear program, he says in an interview with the New York Post.

“I don’t know. I did think so, and I’m getting more and more — less confident about it,” he tells Miranda Devine on her Pod Force One podcast.

“They seem to be delaying, and I think that’s a shame, but I’m less confident now than I would have been a couple of months ago,” says Trump. “Something happened to them, but I am much less confident of a deal being made.”

Trump pledges that, whether or not ongoing talks succeed, Iran will not get a nuclear weapon.

“Well, if they don’t make a deal, they’re not going to have a nuclear weapon,” says the president. “If they do make a deal, they’re not going have a nuclear weapon, too, you know? But they’re not going a have a new nuclear weapon, so it’s not going to matter from that standpoint.”

“But it would be nicer to do it without warfare, without people dying, it’s so much nicer to do it,” he continues. “But I don’t think I see the same level of enthusiasm for them to make a deal. I think they would make a mistake, but we’ll see. I guess time will tell.”

A sixth round of talks between Iran and the US is expected to take place this weekend. If nuclear negotiations fail and conflict arises with the United States, Iran will strike American bases in the region, said Iran’s Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh earlier today.