President Trump Wednesday said it was no longer necessary to work out a nuclear deal with Iran, and he said U.S. negotiators will discuss the issue with Iranian officials next week.
“We may sign an agreement,” Mr. Trump said during a press conference at the NATO summit at the Hague. “To me, I don’t think it’s that necessary. … I don’t care if I have an agreement or not. The only thing we would be asking for is what we were asking for before. We want no nuclear, but we destroyed the nuclear.”
Mr. Trump withdrew the U.S. from the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, also known as the “Iran nuclear deal,” on May 8, 2018. Tehran had agreed to the deal with the Obama White House, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany.
The U.S. sent B-2 bombers into Iran on Saturday and struck three key nuclear facilities with bunker-busting bombs.
Despite an intelligence leak to several news sites questioning how much of an impact the strike had, Mr Trump and his top Cabinet officials told reporters the mission was “flawless.”
“We hear it was obliteration. It was a virtual obliteration,” Mr. Trump said. “If you look at the before and the after picture, everything above [ground] is burned black, the trees, everything.”
