Donald Trump is speaking at the White House, where he is asked whether the US is moving closer to striking Iranian nuclear facilities.
“You don’t seriously think I’m going to answer that question? ‘Will you strike the Iranian nuclear component and what time exactly, sir, sir, would you strike it?'”
He adds: “You don’t know that I’m going to even do. You don’t know. I may do it. I may not do it.”
He says “nobody knows what I’m going to do”, but he can say this: “Iran’s got a lot of trouble, and they want to negotiate.
“And I said, why didn’t you negotiate with me before all this death and destruction? Why didn’t you go?
“I said to people, why didn’t you negotiate with me two weeks ago?”
He says Iran has reached out to him, claiming they even “suggested” they come to the White House.
“They had bad intentions, you know, for 40 years they’ve been saying death to America, death to Israel, death to anybody else that they didn’t like anywhere,” he adds.
“Bullies. They were schoolyard bullies. And now they’re not bullies anymore. But we’ll see what happens.”
He also says “nothing’s finished until it’s finished”, and that war is “very complex”.
“I wouldn’t say that we won anything yet,” he says.
“I would say that we sure as hell made a lot of progress. And we’ll see – the next week is going to be very big, maybe less than a week, maybe less.”
We remind you that Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, in a message on Wednesday, said the Iranian nation will “firmly stand against” an imposed war.
