President Donald Trump revealed on Friday that a 20-year moratorium on Iran’s nuclear program would be sufficient for him on that portion of a possible agreement to end the war.The president’s acknowledgement on Air Force One following his trip to China appears to suggest a shift in his thinking, given he has repeatedly said they must agree to completely and permanently dismantle its nuclear program.“Twenty years is enough, but the level of guarantee from them is not enough,” Trump said about Tehran’s latest offer. “In other words, it’s got to be a real 20 years.”
Simultaneously, he also said that he throws away any Iranian proposal that has “any nuclear of any form,” though his comments suggest that he’s open to Iran restarting its nuclear program eventually.
“Well, I looked at it,” Trump said of a recent proposal. “If I don’t like the first sentence, I just throw it away,” adding it was an “unacceptable sentence because they have fully agreed [to] no nuclear. And if they have any nuclear of any form, I don’t read the rest of it.”
The U.S. military carried out strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last June in Operation Midnight Hammer, and carried out a roughly five-week war primarily going after their ballistic missile arsenal, navy, and defense industrial base.
