President Donald Trump contended Wednesday that weekend U.S. military strikes on Iran had “ended the war” between Israel and the Islamic republic, pushing back on reports of an early Pentagon assessment that the attacks set back Tehran’s nuclear program by only a few months.
Trump announced moments before departing the NATO summit in the Netherlands that his administration would meet with Iranian officials next week. But Trump said he does not believe a peace agreement or a deal on Tehran’s nuclear program would be necessary because the two sides “had a war, they fought, now they’re going back to their world.”
“I don’t care if I have an agreement or not. The only thing [we] would be asking for is what we were asking for before … we want no nuclear,” Trump said.
