President Trump is losing hope that Iran will agree to end all uranium enrichment in a revised nuclear deal with the United States — but remains determined not to allow Tehran to get their hands on an atomic weapon, he told The Post’s Miranda Devine on the first episode of her new podcast “Pod Force One,” airing Wednesday, APA reports.
“I don’t know,” Trump, 78, told Devine when asked Monday if he thought he could get Iran to agree to shut down its nuclear program. “I don’t know. I did think so, and I’m getting more and more — less confident about it.
“They seem to be delaying, and I think that’s a shame, but I’m less confident now than I would have been a couple of months ago. Something happened to them, but I am much less confident of a deal being made.”
“What happens then?” asked Devine.
“Well, if they don’t make a deal, they’re not going to have a nuclear weapon,” Trump answered. “If they do make a deal, they’re not going have a nuclear weapon, too, you know? But they’re not going a have a new nuclear weapon, so it’s not going to matter from that standpoint.
“But it would be nicer to do it without warfare, without people dying, it’s so much nicer to do it. But I don’t think I see the same level of enthusiasm for them to make a deal. I think they would make a mistake, but we’ll see. I guess time will tell.”
Trump’s special Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, has been engaging in indirect talks with Tehran for months, with little progress.
Witkoff had previously floated the idea of allowing Iran to continue enriching uranium, but only for civilian purposes, an offer similar to former President Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal, from which Trump withdrew the US three years later.
However, the State Department and White House have been adamant that Iran should not be allowed to enrich any whatsoever.
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