United States President Donald Trump said on Monday that Iran “cannot have nuclear weapons.”
The statement, given alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, came after the Republican announced direct negotiations about the Tehran nuclear program.
Trump said the country will be “in great danger” if conversations fail: “It would be a bad day [para o Irã]. ”
The US president said that on Saturday (12), there will be a “important” meeting.
The announcement of direct negotiations is surprising as the Iranian authorities apparently rejected US requests.
“We are having direct conversations with Iran and they have started. It will happen on Saturday. We have a very big meeting, and we will see what can happen,” Trump told reporters at the Oval Hall.
“And I think everyone agrees that making a deal would be preferable,” said Trump. He gave no more details.
Trump’s alerts on a military action against Iran had already aroused nervousness throughout the Middle East after the open war in Gaza and Lebanon, military attacks in Yemen and a change of leadership in Syria.
Trump said he prefers an agreement about Iran’s nuclear program to a military confrontation and told March 7 that he wrote to the supreme leader Ali Khamenei to suggest negotiations.
Iranian authorities said at the time that Tehran would not be intimidated to negotiate.
Iran in Trump’s first term
During his term from 2017 to 2021, Trump removed the US from a 2015 agreement between Iran and the world powers that imposed rigid boundaries on Tehran’s nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief. Trump also reimples comprehensive US sanctions.
Since then, Iran has greatly exceeded the limits of the agreement for uranium enrichment.
Western powers accuse Iran of having a clandestine agenda to develop nuclear weapons capacity through uranium enrichment to a high level of fissile purity, above what they say it is justifiable for an atomic civil energy program.
Tehran says his nuclear program is totally for civil energy purposes.
This content was originally published in “Iran cannot have nuclear weapons,” says Trump before an important meeting on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil

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