President Donald Trump said Friday that Iran’s latest peace offer didn’t have strong enough guarantees when it came to their nuclear program.
“I looked at it, and if I don’t like the first sentence, I just throw it away,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One while traveling home from China.
“What was the first sentence?” Trump was asked.
“An unacceptable sentence because they have fully agreed, no nuclear. And if they have any nuclear of any form, I don’t read the rest of it,” Trump said.
The reporter responded, “So 20 years is not enough for you, it’s got to be a permanent…”
“No, 20 years is enough,” Trump interjected. “But the level of guarantee from them is not enough. In other words, it’s got to be a real 20 years.”
Trump referenced “nuclear dust,” a phrase he coined for Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium buried beneath bombed nuclear sites after U.S. strikes. The U.S. wants the material removed or confiscated, but Trump told reporters the Iranians have not yet agreed.
“They said that they can’t remove it because they don’t have the technology to remove it. They don’t have the type of tractors,” Trump said on Air Force Once. “They say the only one, they told me directly, they said the only one that can remove it is China or the US. We’re the only ones with the equipment.”
“They said you were right. It is a complete obliteration,” he added. “With that being said, I want to get it. and they agreed to it, but then they took it back. But they’ll agree to it eventually.”
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