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Trump says Iran does not want to go far enough

28 February 2026 09:42 (UTC +04:00)

US President Donald Trump says Iran does not want to go far enough in negotiations, shortly after Oman's foreign minister said Tehran was ready to give up its uranium stockpiles and allow IAEA verification, APA reports.

"They should make a deal, but they don’t want to quite go far enough, and it’s too bad," Trump told reporters in Texas.

"Look, we’ve been playing with them for 47 years, and that’s a long time. They’ve been blowing the legs off our people, blowing the face off our people, the arms. They’ve been knocking out ships one by one. And every month, there’s something else."

"You can’t put up with it too long. We’re not happy with the negotiation. They just don’t want to, they don’t want to say the key words 'we’re not going to have a nuclear weapon'. They have to say 'we’re not going to have a nuclear weapon' and they just can’t quite get there."

Trump said Iran wants "to enrich a little bit. You don’t have to enrich when you have that much oil. So, so I’m not happy with the negotiation. I say no enrichment, not 20%, 30%. They always want 20%, 30%. They want it for civilian, you know, for civil, civil. I think it’s uncivil. So I’m not happy with it."

"But they’re not getting to the right answer. And we’re not gonna see people... 47 years we’ve been doing this with them," he added.