Donald Trump has announced that the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire has been extended by three weeks, as he said he has “all the time in the world” to reach a peace deal with Iran.
“We had a great meeting with very high officials of Lebanon and very high officials of Israel”, the US president said from the Oval Office on Thursday.
“They’ve agreed to an additional three weeks of no firing”.He claimed that he could continue with the war in the Middle East, but Iran was running out of time. “I have all the time in the World, but Iran doesn’t — The clock is ticking,” he added.
Trump said Tehran might have loaded up their weaponry “a little bit” during its ceasefire with Washington, but that the US military could knock that out in about one day.
Also on Thursday, Trump dismissed the idea that he could use a nuclear weapon against Iran, branding the question “stupid”. “We’ve totally, in a very conventional way, decimated them without it. “No, I wouldn’t use it. A nuclear weapon should never be allowed to be used by anybody”.
