Washington - US President Donald Trump is
confident he could still renegotiate a nuclear deal with Tehran,
White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said on Monday, a day after
Iran announced it would retreat further from the 2015 nuclear
pact.
Asked if Trump believes he can still get Iran to negotiate a
new nuclear agreement, Conway told reporters at the White House:
"He said he's open. If Iran wants to start behaving like a
normal country... sure, absolutely."
Trump later took to Twitter to reiterate the White House
stance that "Iran will never have a nuclear weapon" but gave no
other details.
Conway also defended Trump's decision last week to kill one
of Iran's top military commanders, saying the president "did
what a responsible, strong - not weak - commander-in-chief does
when faced with the opportunity to take out one of the - if not
the - world's most wanted terrorists."
Iran has said it will not renegotiate the nuclear deal,
which Trump abandoned in 2018, triggering a sharp decline in
relations between Tehran and Washington.
Tehran has already breached many of the deal’s restrictions
on its nuclear activities and on Sunday said it would abandon
limitations on enriching uranium. But it said it would still
continue to cooperate with the U.N. nuclear watchdog and could
quickly reverse its steps if U.S. sanctions are removed.
Trump's administration has pursued a "maximum pressure"
campaign against Iran that it said could help pressure Tehran to
come to the negotiating table. Trump has previously said he is
open to talks with Tehran.