Trump, the threat to Iran ‘with a smile’: “If he kills US soldiers, I will attack immediately”

“Meeting with Khamenei? No, but if it happens…”

If necessary, Trump would also be willing to meet Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic republic. “I don’t want a meeting, but if I were to meet “Khamenei” I would be honored. I would like to see if it was possible to make an agreement. If there were to be a meeting, I would be respectful. I would say that I am not his favorite person, but I think he is a ‘professional’ and in certain circles he has a very good reputation,” the president says.

On the negotiating table, among the issues that stands out is that relating to uranium enriched to 60% by Tehran. Trump is convinced that the United States will eventually possess “nuclear powder”. The material must be recovered from the underground deposits in which it has been placed for some time. The American president admits that at the beginning of the war he thought about an action to acquire enriched uranium. “But it’s not like going to Venezuela: you arrive, you act in 5 minutes, you leave. There in Iran you have to stay for 2 weeks, you have to transport equipment and equipment to a war zone. At the beginning of the operation we thought about doing it, but we would have had to stay there for 1-2 weeks and I didn’t like the idea”, he explains in response to questions from the media. “We could recover the material even now, we are checking 3 plants: there are cameras aimed at every centimeter of land, we would know what to do if someone approached”, he says.

Hormuz chapter: the Strait, still under the threat of Iranian missiles and drones, is armored by the US naval blockade. Trump reiterates that European countries should have acted to support US efforts. “We don’t need the help, we are the most powerful country in the world,” the president says. “We offered NATO the opportunity to help, we didn’t need it. And we don’t need the oil that passes through the Strait of Hormuz. They need it, some European countries need it terribly and should have said ‘we want to help’,” he says.