Trump: want to finish Iran then Cuba 'question of time'

The National Capitol of Cuba rises amid the city skyline as Cuba brought its national electrical grid back online after the country had been largely without power for 16 hours in an outage that Energy Ministry officials linked to the oil blockade of Cuba imposed by the United States, in Havana, Cuba, March 5, 2026. REUTERS/Norlys Perez

March 5 (Reuters) - ⁠U.S. President Donald ⁠Trump said on Thursday ‌he wants to finish the war in Iran first, ​but then it "will ⁠be just ⁠a question of time ⁠before you ‌and a lot of ⁠unbelievable people are going to ​be ‌going back to Cuba."

Trump, ⁠speaking ​at an event with the Inter ⁠Miami soccer team at ​the White House, said Cuba wants "to make a ⁠deal so badly."

"We want to finish this one first," he said, ​referring to ⁠the conflict in Iran.

(Reporting ​by Bo ‌Erickson; Writing by ​Michelle Nichols; Editing by Daphne Psaledakis)