Negotiations between the US and Iran remain ongoing, President Donald Trump said early Tuesday morning, just hours after Iran and Israel agreed to halt attacks on one another that threatened to shatter a shaky ceasefire, Anadolu Agency reports.
Trump said the talks with Tehran did not stop during the escalation in violence, signaling that a deal to formally end the war could be reached within “one or two days from now, but I think it’s going well.”
“They were going back and forth, and now they both agreed through me to stop, and we’re in the final throes of what will be a very, very good deal that will not allow in any way, shape, or form nuclear weapons, etc.,” the US president told reporters as he prepared to return to the White House after attending an NBA finals game in New York.
He said that Israel and Iran will leave each other alone for at least a week after he had a “very good conversation” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“He (Netanyahu) was hit, and he hit back, and I can’t blame him for that,” Trump said.