US President Donald Trump threatened Iran Thursday with “very traumatic” consequences if it fails to make a nuclear deal—but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was skeptical about the quality of any such agreement. “We have to make a deal, otherwise it’s going to be very traumatic, very traumatic. I don’t want that to happen, but we have to make a deal,” Trump told reporters. Netanyahu had travelled to Washington to push Trump to take a harder line in the Iran nuclear talks, particularly on including the Islamic Republic’s arsenal of ballistic missiles. So far, Iran has rejected expanding the new talks beyond the issue of its nuclear program.

Source: Punch February 12, 2026 20:13 UTC