US President Donald Trump claims that Iran has “agreed to just about everything we need” in negotiations over a final accord between the two countries. Trump makes the claim in a CNBC interview when asked whether the Iran war could turn into one of the so-called ‘forever wars’ that he pledged to avoid.
Trump has previously touted Iran’s pledge in the MOU inked last month to not obtain a nuclear weapon, even though it made the same commitment in the 2015 nuclear deal brokered by then-US president Barack Obama, which Trump ridiculed and pulled out of in 2018. He has also previously claimed that Iran has agreed to allow the US to extract the country’s stockpiles of highly enriched uranium — something the Islamic Republic has denied and is actually one of the main sticking points in talks between the sides, which have reportedly not made much progress.
Trump points out in the CNBC interview that the Iran war was much shorter than other conflicts, and claims that the Afghanistan war lasted “like 10 years,” though it in fact lasted some 20 years, including spanning his first term. He says of Iran that he managed to “defeat them militarily,” even though Tehran has “some missiles left.” He says the US could wipe those out as well and has hit Iran as recently as last week in retaliation for targeting ships in Hormuz. “We’re negotiating, and we’ll see,” Trump says. (Ed note: Either someone is lying, or someone is delusional.) (Source)
