Trump Said Iran Is Made a "BIG NUCLEAR Promise" Iran: 'Never Heard About This'
President Trump has said the main reason he went to war on Feb. 28 was to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Credit... Doug Mills/The New York Times By Michael Crowley Reporting from Washington New York Times More than two months of on-again, off-again peace talks have made little progress toward settling the U.S. war on Iran. But President Trump has lately claimed a major breakthrough. “The one guarantee that I have to have is that there will be no nuclear weapons,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with his daughter-in-law Lara Trump on Fox News last month. Iran, he added, has “agreed to that, and it was very interesting.” Mr. Trump emphasized the point again on Monday. “They’ve already agreed they’re not going to have a nuclear weapon,” he told a New York Post podcast. “That was one of the things they’ve had to agree, they’ve agreed to that. That was the big thing,” he said. Mr. Trump has said the main reason he went to war on Feb. 28 was to p...