President Donald Trump The United States will interact with Iran “directly” in its high-level meeting to be held this Saturday, it said on Monday.
“We had a big meeting on Saturday and we dealt with them directly,” Trump told an Oval Office reporter as he sat next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The announced meeting is the first time known in the United States Interact directly with Iran Since the early Trump administration, the administration has withdrawn from the Joint Comprehensive Action Plan (JCPOA) in 2018.
Donald Trump meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Oval Office of the White House on April 7, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
“We will see what will happen,” Trump said last week of his threat. “Bomb” Iran If the talks are not attended to end its nuclear program.
“[That’s] Trump continued: “We will not want to be involved in what Israel wants to avoid, or frankly, Israel wants to be involved.
“This will become a very dangerous territory,” Trump warned. “Hopefully these conversations will succeed.”
Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei believed Iran’s nuclear achievements on Sunday, June 11. (Office of Iran’s Supreme Leader/WANA/Reuters)
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The president declined to elaborate on where the talks were or how they differed from the JCPOA, just saying they would be “different” and “stronger.”
After the U.S. withdraws from the deal, the nuclear deal has largely collapsed, and Iran begins to rapidly develop its nuclear program, despite the remaining signatories (including the United Kingdom, China, France, Russia and Germany).
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Adviser Michael Waltz in the Oval Office of the White House on April 7, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Earlier this year, the UN nuclear watchdog warned that Tehran had accumulated enough near-weapon-grade enrichment uranium to build Five nuclear weapons If uranium is further enriched.
“I think if the negotiations are not successful with Iran … Iran will be in great danger,” Trump said on Monday.
It is unclear whether Israel or any other country will participate in the negotiations, although Netanyahu made it clear that Jerusalem is aligned with the United States to ensure the end of Iran’s nuclear program.
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“We both unite, that is, Iran will never get nuclear weapons and can do Libya’s way completely diplomatically,” Netanyahu told reporters. “I think that’s a good thing.
“But whatever happens, we have to make sure Iran has no nuclear weapons,” he added.
