Trump says he will meet with Iran next week

President Trump says that the United States will meet with Iran next week, like a High the faint fire Between Israel and Iran it remains for now.

During a press conference on Wednesday to limit the NATO summit in The Hague, the Netherlands, the president said there may be a formal agreement at some time with Iran, but does not believe that one is necessary because their nuclear sites were “exploited for the kingdom.”

“We are going to talk to them next week, with Iran,” the president told journalists at the press conference, adding that the United States will “meet” with them, although he did not specify who will be involved in the meeting or where he will take place.

“I don’t care if I have an agreement or not,” he said. “The only thing we would ask for is what we were asking before,” we don’t want nuclear. “But we destroy the nuclear. Well, we explode it.

The president met with other world leaders outside the summit, in the midst of cautious optimism about the cease-fire The Trump administration negotiated. The 12 -day conflict left 28 people dead in Israel and hundreds in Iran.

“It was a 12 -day war. And we believe it is over,” Trump said during the press conference. “I don’t think they will return to each other, I don’t think so.”

“Because I dealt with both, and both are tired, exhausted,” Trump said. “They fought very, very hard and very cruelly, very violently, and both were satisfied to go home and go out. And can you start again? I guess one day can, maybe I could start soon.”

At the summit, Trump said Iran’s enrichment efforts were “basically decades.” USA. strikes In Iranian nuclear facilities they were “very, very successful. It is called ‘obliteration,” he said at the press conference. An initial classified evaluation However, by the Defense Intelligence Agency, he estimated that the attacks only established the Tehran nuclear program in a matter of months, according to three sources familiar with its content.

Regarding the conflict of Israel-Amas, Trump expressed optimism and said there has been “great progress.”

“I think they are making great progress in Gaza,” Trump said. “I think that due to this attack we made, I think we are going to have very good news.”

On Wednesday, Mr. Trump met with NATO General Secretary Mark Ruttewho congratulated the president for his efforts to promote the defense expense of other countries and for his efforts in the Middle East.

“You are a man of strength and also a man of peace,” Routte told Mr. Trump.

Trump also met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy said they discussed “how to achieve a stop the fire and a true peace agreement.”

“We appreciate attention and preparation to help closer peace,” Zelenskyy wrote in X, adding: “The details will continue.”

The president said about his conversation with Zelenskyy: “I took out of the meeting that he would like to see that he ends. I think it’s a good time to finish. I’m going to talk to Vladimir Putin and see if we can finish.”

A reporter of the Ukrainian BBC, who said that her husband is a soldier in Ukraine, asked the president if the United States would provide Ukraine with patriotic antimile defense systems, which intercept ballistic missiles.

“They want to have the antimile missiles … the Patriots,” Trump replied, “and we will see if we can put some available.” He said that missiles were “difficult to get”, and the United States has been providing Israel. “They are very effective, 100% effective.”

The president, upon learning that the journalist lived with his children in Warsaw while her husband fights in Ukraine, said: “That is difficult, right?” And after he answered his question, he wished her luck and offered her greetings to her husband.

The NATO members, with the exceptions of Spain and Slovakia, have agreed to a dramatic increase in their defense expense, 5% of GDP, a goal pressed by Trump, although the defense expense of the United States is below that goal. Before going to the summit, Trump said that the United States should not have to achieve that goal, since it has contributed much to NATO in the past.

“This week, NATO allies promised to drastically increase their 5% defense expense of GDP, something that nobody really believed possible,” Trump said at his press conference, adding that he will be known as “The Hague Defense commitment.”

When asked about Spain’s refusal to commit to the threshold of 5%, Trump said he liked Spain and its people, “but Spain is the only country, from all other countries, which refuses to pay,” and said he was getting “a little free trip.” The president continued to say that the United States is negotiating with Spain in commerce, and “we are going to make double pay.”

It was a whirlwind for Trump, who arrived in the Netherlands on Tuesday and is scheduled to fly back to Washington on Wednesday.

The president said that he will leave NATO with a different perspective on article 5, the agreement that the allies will be clarified in the aid when they are attacked, after listening directly to other leaders. The president told journalists that he no longer considers the alliance a “scam” and wants the United States to help defend other NATO nations.

Weijia Jiang and Haley Ott contributed to this report.

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