President Donald Trump used a press conference at the end of the G7 summit Wednesday in France to laud a war-ending pact with Iran, as senators back home criticized a lack of information about the deal and questioned his declaration the previous day that U.S. relations with Iran are “normalized.”
The administration’s preliminary pact with Iran hung over the summit, where Trump said he had a chance “to discuss the details of this historic agreement with many of our closest friends and allies.”
“They are thrilled, and we made a deal. Every one of them, there’s no one nation that came to us and said, ‘Please, sir, keep dropping bombs on them. Please keep dropping bombs,’” Trump said, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other U.S. officials beside him.
Despite the Islamic Republic government remaining intact, Trump said with a noticeably hoarse voice that the U.S. and Israel had achieved “regime change,” as he expressed optimism about the new leadership in Tehran.
A day earlier, during a meeting with United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Trump said Iran wants “to get back to business. The relationship is now normalized, so I think it is going to go quickly.”
