Washington – US President Donald Trump is confident he could still renegotiate a nuclear deal with Tehran, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said on Monday, a day after Iran announced it would retreat further from the 2015 nuclear pact.
Asked if Trump believes he can still get Iran to negotiate a new nuclear agreement, Conway told reporters at the White House: “He said he’s open. If Iran wants to start behaving like a normal country… sure, absolutely.”
Trump later took to Twitter to reiterate the White House stance that “Iran will never have a nuclear weapon” but gave no other details.
Conway also defended Trump’s decision last week to kill one of Iran’s top military commanders, saying the president “did what a responsible, strong – not weak – commander-in-chief does when faced with the opportunity to take out one of the – if not the – world’s most wanted terrorists.”
Iran has said it will not renegotiate the nuclear deal, which Trump abandoned in 2018, triggering a sharp decline in relations between Tehran and Washington.
