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From the Liveblog of
Friday, September 27, 2024
From the Liveblog of
Friday, September 27, 2024
Trump suggests he would make a deal with Iran if elected: ‘We have to’
Former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in Mint Hill, North Carolina, on September 25, 2024. (Logan Cyrus/AFP)
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump raises the idea of making a deal with Iran aimed at ending hostilities if he is elected president this fall.
“I would do that,” Trump says, without offering details on what sort of deal he was talking about. “We have to make a deal, because the consequences are impossible. We have to make a deal.”
Trump pulled out of a deal in 2018 agreed to by the Obama administration alongside major world powers that granted Tehran sanctions relief in exchange for limits on its weapons program; since then Iran has returned to enriching uranium to the high levels necessary for creating nuclear weapons.
