US President Donald Trump praised the swift end to war between Iran and Israel and said Washington would likely seek a commitment from Tehran to end its nuclear ambitions at talks with Iranian officials next week.
Trump said his decision to join Israel’s attacks by targeting Iranian nuclear sites with huge bunker-busting bombs had ended the war, calling it “a victory for everybody”. “It was very severe. It was obliteration,” he said, shrugging off an initial assessment by the US Defence Intelligence Agency that Iran’s path to building a nuclear weapon may have been set back only by months.
Speaking in The Hague where he attended a Nato summit yesterday, he said he did not see Iran getting involved again in developing nuclear weapons.
“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.
Anxious Iranians and Israelis sought to resume normal life after the most intense confrontation ever between the two foes.
He said he was confident Tehran would pursue a diplomatic path towards reconciliation.
“I’ll tell you, the last thing they want to do is enrich anything right now. They want to recover,” he said.
If Iran tried to rebuild its nuclear programme, “We won’t let that happen. Number one, militarily we won’t,” he said, adding that he thought “we’ll end up having something of a relationship with Iran” to resolve the issue.
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