President Donald Trump is pushing back on claims that the United States is under pressure to reach a deal with Iran, even as the ongoing conflict continues to drive up energy costs and strain global markets.
“I am possibly the least pressured person ever to be in this position,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “I have all the time in the world, but Iran doesn’t — the clock is ticking.”
Trump added that he could make a deal with Iran “right now,” but he wants it to be “everlasting” rather than temporary.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump acknowledged that Americans could face higher gas prices in the near term. “For a little while,” he said, before adding that the outcome would be worth it: “Iran without a nuclear weapon that’s going try to blow up one of our cities or the entire Middle East.”
The president declined to offer a timeline for reaching a permanent ceasefire agreement, emphasizing patience over urgency. “Don’t rush me,” he told reporters, noting that past U.S. wars have lasted far longer than the current conflict.
Trump also pointed to what he described as internal divisions within Iran’s leadership. “They’re fighting like cats and dogs over who’s going to control. We’ve created a real mess for them,” he said.
While suggesting that a deal could be reached quickly, Trump said he is aiming for a lasting agreement rather than a short-term fix. “A deal will only be made when it’s appropriate and good for the United States of America, our allies and, in fact, the rest of the world,” he said.
Trump also stressed the importance of removing Iran’s nuclear threat, saying, “I think there would be nothing worse than having nuclear holocaust in Europe; London, Paris, various places in Germany — all targeted.”
The remarks come as the Pentagon announced that a third aircraft carrier – the USS George H.W. Bush – entered the Indian Ocean, in the CENTCOM “area of responsibility,” and could in if strikes on Iran resume.
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Trump making this huge deal over getting Iran to sign a paper that they won’t enrich makes little sense as it should be obvious to him that they do want to enrich and so when the time comes they will make up some excuse to do so, probably that the other side violated their part of the deal.
Trump is very smart.
Obviously a deal will come with verifications in place. When they kick the inspectors out he’ll know the deal is off. No more games
Once upon a time (in the summer of 1914), a major power got really mad at a not very big or important country that was supporting terrorism. They decided to teach these terrorists a lesson. It turned out that major power was badly divided politically, and didn’t have a properly equipped armed forces. But not to worry, everyone had lots of friends, who for their own nefarious reasons, wanted to help. Arguably, everything that’s gone wrong (including the Holocaust) in the last 100+ years was the result.
The US is short of equipment, and Trump has minimal support in Congress or among the public. He runs the risk that the Sino-Russian alliance will take advantage of the situation and “nibble” on some small countries that the US has sworn to protect. Most of America’s allies no longer trust the US (note that among both parties – remember who capitulated in Afghanistan – only the RINOs and DINOs support foreign wars). Countries that the US went to great lengths to pacify (such as Germany and Japan) are acting as if they expect a war in the foreseeable future.
Trump knows that there is no chance that Republicans win next election and they probably won’t win the Senate
Next week expires the sixty days of his power rights and it goes to Congress
So far we gained almost nothing from Iran, that is taxing the ships to compensate, and it’s about to bomb the Saudi gas and water, we can’t do that to them
The weapons stocks are so depleted that we literally will have to start using the fighter jets as weapons themselves, he used the entire inventory in his own greed to the point that we are in grave danger of any country decided to fight, not to mention China or Russia, where it’s quit obvious that we won’t,
I have never seen anything like it, this mans entire political science is one track minded, Israel, it’s completely crazy, he illegally kidnapped Venezuela using illegal weaponry to get the gas, and it didn’t even help us for that, he keeps saying to leave the NATO and cause of Israel, he cut Ukraine with all the NATO it had, and he used all of the us army wealth for nothing in Iran.
Iran is a very strong country and it could even be stronger then us right now, although it just got allot of American technology from un-exploded bombs etc… it has many navy boats and many weapons
Hmm Iranians posting on YWN
Vos Shraitz De Irainin Meshuga ve de bist
“akuperma” $ “. Says” sound like a mouthpiece for Iran, China, or Russia. How utterly pathetically ridiculous and ignorant of the most basic facts can one be if not a spokesperson for a rouge country. Typical defeatist nonsense.
@ dot: remember to engage brain before operating keyboard.
Commenter “.” At 9:36 pm is writing from Iran, hence his bad English. He should write in Persian.