President Donald Trump said today in an interview with CBS News that negotiators from the United States and Iran are “very close” to finalizing a deal to end the war.
Trump said any final deal would prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and ensure that there is “satisfactory management” of Iranian enriched uranium, according to CBS
“I will only sign an agreement where we get everything we want,” Trump reportedly said. Iran, the United States and Pakistan, which mediates, said today that progress had been made in talks to end the war, which has been going on for nearly three months.
“Every day things are getting better,” the US president also said of the negotiations.
According to CBS, which cited sources close to the talks, the latest proposal includes opening the Strait of Hormuz, unfreezing Iranian assets in foreign banks and continuing the negotiations for an additional 30 days.
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The US television network did not, however, specify which side these proposals came from.
Trump will discuss the latest draft deal today with his advisers and may make a decision by tomorrow, Sunday, on whether to resume the war, he said in a separate interview with news website Axios, tempering expectations by saying the chances of a deal are “50-50”.
“Either we get a good deal or I’m going to blow them to smithereens,” Donald Trump said, according to Axios.
