Trump says US to hold nuclear talks with Iran next week amid Israel-Iran ceasefire | World News
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he doesn’t think a nuclear deal with Iran is necessary, though he would like to seek a commitment from Iran that it would end its nuclear ambitions at US-Iran talks scheduled to take place next.
While crediting US strikes on Tehran’s nuclear sites as the reason for bringing a swift end to the conflict between Israel and Iran, Trump said his decision to use bunker busting bombs via B-2 Spirit stealth bombers “completely destroyed and obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program and called the outcome “victory for everybody”.
“It was very severe, it was obliteration,” Trump said while rejecting a report prepared the Defense Intelligence Agency, the intelligence arm of the Pentagon which stated that American strikes on Tehran’s nuclear sites on June 20 did not damage the core components of Iran’s nuclear programme but has only set it back months.
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Speaking at the NATO Summit in The Hague, Trump said he doesn’t see Iran engaging in nuclear weapons development again after the 12-day Israel-Iran conflict and US strikes on three key nuclear sites in Tehran. Though the Islamic Republic has long denied Western accusations that it is seeking nuclear arms, rather has stated that its nuclear program is a peaceful process.
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Meanwhile, Iranian and Israeli people resorted to resume their normal life after the 12-day conflict which is dubbed as the most severe and intense confrontation between the two foes, until a ceasefire took place on Tuesday which was mediated President Trump and Qatar.
“We’re going to talk to them next week, with Iran. We may sign an agreement. I don’t know. To me, I don’t think it’s that necessary,” Trump said.
The US president added that Iran would want to recover from the recently concluded conflict and would not enrich anything for now, referring to Western accusations that Iran has been enriching uranium to a purity level where it can manufacture nuclear weapons.
Later, the US Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe said in a statement that the American air strikes had “severely damaged” Iran’s nuclear program.
