If nuclear talks falter, Trump says he’ll be ‘leading the pack’ to war with Iran

president Donald Trump may prefer a diplomatic solution to stop Iran’s crawl towards a nuclear weapon, but he claimed that he would “lead the package” to war with the regime if the talks stumbled.

“I think we will make a deal with Iran,” said Time magazine in an interview published on Friday.

When asked whether he was concerned about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he might pull him into a war with Iran, Trump said no. “By the way, it may enter the war. But we are not dragging.”

“I asked if he was going to go, just as I would go unintentionally.

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Trump was asked about reports that he stopped Netanyahu from hitting Iran after an oval office meeting earlier this month.

“This is not true,” he said.

“I did not stop them. But I did not make it comfortable for them, because I think we can make a deal without the attack. I hope we can. We can have to attack, because Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. But I did not rest for them, but I did not say that.

Iran intensifies state executions amid nuclear talks with us

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Iran, under the leadership of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khawni, will be involved in nuclear talks with the United States this week. (Iranian Supreme Leader/Wana (West Asian News Agency)/Bulletin via Reuters.

A team of American officials will meet with their Iranian counterparts in Amman on Saturday to continue the negotiations aimed at stopping the nuclear progress of Tehran.

Trump said his red line is Iran has a nuclear weapon. Enriching uranium exceeds the levels of civil use to 60 %, Iran is only shy of 90 % levels of weapons.

Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said that Iran’s week could use a specific amount of low -level uranium fertilized for civil nuclear programs, but must be imported.

During a phone call on Tuesday, Netanyahu Trump told that he “does not rule out” a diplomatic approach to Iran, but only does not leave any trace of “the Iranian nuclear program, according to the Israeli media.

Iran now enriches uranium up to 60 %. (Atomic Energy Organization in Iran via AP, File)

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Trump is scheduled to travel to the Middle East next month to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, and expressed optimism that he could mediate in the normalization deal between Israel and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

“I think Saudi Arabia will go to Ibrahim’s agreements,” Trump said. “I think it will be complete quickly.”