US President Donald Trump said his administration’s talks with Iran were “in the final stages” on Wednesday, warning of further attacks, as a fragile ceasefire entered its sixth week with no sign of an end to the conflict.
The US launched “Operation Epic Fury” about three months agoin a war that began with attacks inside Iran and its main ally Israel, which has since spread across the wider Middle East, killing thousands of people and disrupting global supply chains.
“We’re in the final stages of Iran. We’ll see what happens. Either we’ll have a deal or we’ll do things that are a little bit worse, but we hope that doesn’t happen,” Trump told reporters Wednesday.
“Actually, I’d rather see a few people killed, as opposed to a lot. We can have it both ways.”
When Trump was asked at the Andrews Joint Center near Washington about where the talks with Iran stood, he said: “It’s about the border, believe me.”
“If we don’t get the right answers, it goes very fast. We are all ready to go. We have to get the right answers – they have to be 100 percent good answers,” he said.
