Iran’s foreign minister responded to President Donald Trump’s move to restore his “maximum pressure” campaign against the country but said that it would be willing to work with the United States on nuclear arms.
During a White House event with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, Trump said that he hoped for an agreement with Iran but said Tehran “cannot have a nuclear weapon.”
If Iran “can convince us that they won’t … I hope they can,” Trump also said, “It’s actually very easy to do; I think they’re going to have an unbelievable future.”
The “maximum pressure” campaign, which was signed in a national security memorandum by Trump, seeks to deny Iran “all paths to a nuclear weapon, and countering Iran’s malign influence abroad,” as well as calling for the dismantling of Iran’s “terrorist network” and blocking its development of missiles, asymmetric weapons, and other similar capabilities….