US President Donald Trump has given Iran what amounts to a two-week ultimatum to reach a “meaningful” nuclear agreement with the US or face consequences he described as “really bad things.”
The warning, delivered during the first session of his newly formed Board of Peace in Washington, marked one of Trump’s starkest deadlines yet in a long and volatile standoff with Tehran.
He later told reporters aboard Air Force One that Iran would have “10, 15 days, pretty much maximum” to produce results.
Trump did not spell out what action he might take, but the signals are clear. US aircraft carriers, warships and fighter jets now crowd key positions across the Middle East, part of a military deployment that senior officials say will reach full strength by mid-March.
“We may have to take it a step further or we may not,” Trump said, referring to US strikes last June on Iranian nuclear and military facilities. He argued that those attacks severely damaged Iran’s nuclear capacity.
