President Donald Trump’s preference for Iran is to resolve the issue of its nuclear ambitions peacefully, not start a new war, Fred Fleitz, a former National Security Council chief of staff and senior fellow for the American First Policy Institute, told Newsmax Saturday.
“He does not want to go to war with Iran or use military force if he does not have to,” Fleitz said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend.” “Unfortunately, during talks in Geneva yesterday, the Iranians didn’t show any willingness to put together an agreement that would basically end their nuclear program.”
He added that Trump has decided that Iran’s uranium enrichment program’s purpose is “a weapons program.”
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