ISTANBUL: US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that there will be no peace deal if Iran continues to pursue nuclear weapons but added that the war "can be over very soon”, Anadolu Ajansi (AA) reported.
"They cannot have a nuclear weapon... If they don't, we're not making a deal,” Trump told Fox Business in an interview.
"We could take out every one of their bridges in one hour. We could take out every one of their power plants, electric power plants, in one hour. We don't want to do that," he said, adding: "We'll see what happens."
Repeating his claim that Iran posed a threat, he said Tehran was "going over to take over the Middle East, and we stopped them”.
He said Iran would have a nuclear weapon and "would have used it.”
Trump believes that Iran wants to make a deal "very badly”.
Talks were held in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, over the weekend to permanently end the US-Israeli war on Iran that began on Feb 28, but no agreement was reached.
Efforts to hold another round of talks are ongoing. Pakistan, on April 8, brokered a two-week ceasefire, which is still holding. — Bernama-Anadolu
