Trump repeats Iran cannot get nuclear weapon, calls country “somewhat crazy”

President Trump repeated the familiar conditions for peace that Iran should not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon when asked Thursday during an unrelated press conference with EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.

“Right now, we’re negotiating and we’ll see, but either we’re going to get it one way or the other,” Trump said, referring to whether a deal can be negotiated or bombing would resume. “They’re not gonna have a nuclear weapon, you know?”

Trump said if the question was put to Americans, “they will all agree” Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon.

“This is the nuclearization of a country that some people would say is somewhat crazy, and we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon, that’s all it is,” he said. “We can’t let it.”

“You will have a nuclear war in the Middle East, and that war will come here, that war will go to Europe,” Mr. Trump said. “We cannot let that happen, and it won’t happen. That’s more important than anything else.”