United States President Donald Trump has said that he is either going to get a great deal with Iran or the country will face immense military strikes. He said he would rather make a deal, as it will “save a lot of lives” and “we can open the Strait of Hormuz immediately upon signing”.
Trump praised the Iranian leadership’s tough negotiation style and said the US was getting what it wanted slowly but progressively.
“It takes a long time. I’m in no hurry,” he said.
“If you’re going to be in a hurry, you’re not going to make a good deal. And slowly but surely, we’re getting, I think, what we want, and if we don’t get what we want, we’re going to end it a different way.”
In a fresh interview, Trump reflected on the US war in Iraq and said American forces should not have gone into Baghdad or Iran.
“You look at what happened with Iraq. We did so badly. It was such a foolish thing, what we did. We shouldn’t have been there in the first place, by the way. We shouldn’t have been in Iran, but Iran has the capability,” he continued.
“If we hadn't hit them with B-2 bombers nine months ago, they would have a nuclear weapon right now, and it would be a whole different story. You probably wouldn’t have had Israel, but you probably wouldn’t have had a Middle East, and then where do they go from there?” he asked.
Trump claimed that the US has spared the lives of hundreds of Iranian military personnel after recent escalations.
“Their military, we sort of left it alone because we think that their military is somewhat moderate. They have other people who aren’t moderate. We’ve taken them. We’ve taken different forms of leadership out. We’ve actually left their military alone,” he said.
Trump added that “people would be surprised to hear that because mistakes have been made in wars where you wipe out everybody and then you have a country that’s, you know, for 40 years can never rebuild”.
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