Trump: Iran has 'one more chance' at peace
Donald Trump is currently speaking in Memphis, Tennessee, where he's due to deliver remarks on crime-fighting efforts
Before doing so, he gives a brief update on the war in Iran, saying the US is now working to determine whether a "broader agreement can be reached".
"My whole life has been a negotiation but with Iran, we've been negotiating a long time," Trump says. "This time, they mean business." He adds that he believes Iran has agreed they will not have a nuclear weapon.
Trump then says - not for the first time - that a substantial portion of Iran's leadership has been killed since the beginning of the war. He also says Iran has "one more chance" at peace, without giving more detail on who the US is negotiating with.
"We hope they take it," Trump says. "Either way, America and the entire world will be much safer and [it] will be a much safer planet."
Would be a good thing' to not have to 'annihilate' Iran, says US president
More now from Donald Trump, who earlier suggested that if talks with Iran did not go well, the US would "keep bombing our little hearts out".
Now, the US president says: "We were planning tomorrow on shooting down some of their power plants... hopefully we won't have to do it".
"I think there's a very good chance we're going to end up with a deal, he goes on, adding: "We're giving it five days and then we're going to see where it takes us."
"At the end of this period it could very well end up being a very good deal for everybody. As good as if we went all the way and just literally annihilated the place, which if we don't have to do that would be a good thing not a bad thing
Source - BBC
