Tehran was on the verge of getting a nuclear weapon, the president insists, and would use it first on Israel, then on the United States. US president Donald Trump speaking during a meeting in the Oval Office at the White House. “The Iranians understand Israel and the United States want to destroy this material or take it out,” he said. Iran, he said, was willing to blend all of the nuclear material in its possession down to the level used in nuclear reactors, under inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency. They offered an alternative: the United States would supply Iran with low-enriched uranium, good for power reactors, forever and for free, according to two people familiar with the negotiations.

Source: The Irish Times March 18, 2026 18:44 UTC