President Donald Trump declined to comment on how the U.S. might get involved in Israel’s assault on Iran’s nuclear program, but he did acknowledge Iran’s renewed interest in talks Monday at the Group of 7 meeting in Canada.
“They’d like to talk, but they should have done that before,” he told reporters before the G7 meeting began. “They had 60 days, and on the 61st day, I said we don’t have a deal.
“They have to make a deal.”
Trump declined to answer on “what would it take for the U.S. to get involved in this conflict militarily,” saying, “I don’t want to talk about that.”
But he did admit Iran has to come to the table to talk about Trump’s desire to end Iran’s aspirations for obtaining nuclear weapons-grade uranium enrichment.
“It’s painful for both parties, but I’d say Iran is not winning this war, and they should talk and they should talk immediately before it’s too late,” Trump said.
Trump might have brought Iran to be more interested in talks with his statements Sunday.
While he said his administration has not gotten involved in Israel’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear weapons program, he was not ruling out eventual involvement.
“We’re not involved in it,” Trump told ABC News on Sunday. “It’s possible we could get involved, but we are not at this moment involved.”
Trump added he is “open” to having Russian President Vladimir Putin serve as a middle man in nuclear deal talks with Iran, much akin to Trump serving as a middle man for Putin’s peace talks amid his war with Ukraine.
“I would be open to it,” Trump told ABC, adding that Putin “is ready.”
“He called me about it. We had a long talk about it. We talked about this more than his situation. This is something I believe is going to get resolved.”
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