Tue 16 June 2026:
Trump says the Iran deal specifies that Tehran will not possess a nuclear weapon.
“The only thing that really matters to me is Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, and it says it loud and clear,” he told reporters at the G7 summit in France.
“All hell will rain down” on Iran if the Islamic Republic intends to acquire a nuclear weapon, Trump added.
Iranian officials over the years have repeatedly said Iran has no plans to develop nuclear weapons and its nuclear activities remain focused on peaceful energy.
The US president says under the agreement being negotiated with Iran, it “can’t have a nuclear weapon” or “they get blown up”.
“This deal is a wall to a nuclear weapon,” said Trump, while describing the previous nuclear deal with Iran, reached under the administration of former US President Barack Obama, as “a road to a nuclear weapon”.
The US president has said he thinks Iran “has rational leadership now”, after US and Israeli attacks killed numerous Iranian officials early in the war.
He said the Iranian leaders who were “totally irrational” are “now gone”.
Continuing his remarks, Trump said the US would not be “investing any money in Iran”, calling such claims a “ridiculous” rumour.
Trump described the deal reached with Iran as “fair” and “good”.
The US president has said the announced deal with Iran “should be successful”.
Speaking in France, where he is attending the G7 summit, Trump said he expects negotiations to reach a planned second stage of the deal to “be actually easier”.
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Trump says ‘too many people being killed’ in Lebanon
Trump has appeared to criticise Israeli military action in Lebanon, saying it has been fighting Hezbollah “too long and too many people are being killed”.
“You don’t have to knock down an apartment house every time you’re looking for somebody because there’s a lot of people in those apartment houses – and they’re not all Hezbollah,” the US president said.
“I suggested to Israel to let Syria take care of Hezbollah because to be honest with you, I think they’d do a better job of doing it,” Trump added.
Trump says Netanyahu ‘has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon’
Trump says without the US, “there’d be no Israel.”
He added: “Without me there would be no Israel, because no other president was willing to do what I did.”
The US president said he’s had a “great relationship” with Netanyahu but added that the Israeli prime minister “has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon”.
Trump claims Iran deal can survive even if Israel attacks Lebanon
Asked whether the US-Iran deal can survive even if Israel attacks Lebanon, Trump said: “It can”.
“I consider that the minor war,” said Trump, referring to the conflict in Lebanon. “Iran’s the big one, but we have that little pinprick out there that constantly rears its head and that’s Hezbollah”.
Trump says he ‘didn’t like’ Israel’s attack on Lebanon’s Beirut shortly before Iran agreement
The US president has said he “didn’t like” Israel’s attack on Beirut “two hours” before the signing of the agreement with Iran.
“I let them know that. I didn’t like that, not at all.”
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