Trump has a timeline in mind for Iran nuke deal, taps Israel to lead any potential military action

President Donald Trump told reporters that if Iran does not springiness up its atomic weapons program, subject enactment led by Israel is simply a existent possibility, adding helium has a deadline successful caput for erstwhile the 2 countries indispensable travel to an agreement.

The U.S. and Iran are expected to clasp negotiations Saturday successful Oman arsenic the Trump medication continues to effort to rein successful the country's atomic program, threatening "great danger" if the 2 sides neglect to travel to an agreement. 

Trump told reporters from the Oval Office Wednesday helium did person a deadline successful caput for erstwhile the talks indispensable culminate successful an agreed-upon solution, but the president did not spell into details astir the quality of the timeline.

TIMELINE IS RUNNING OUT TO STOP IRAN FROM MAKING NUCLEAR BOMB: ‘DANGEROUS TERRITORY’

Iran's domestically built centrifuges are displayed successful an accumulation of the country's atomic achievements successful Tehran, Iran, Feb. 8, 2023.  (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

"We person a small time, but we don't person overmuch time, due to the fact that we're not going to fto them person a nuclear weapon. We can't fto them person a atomic weapon." Trump said erstwhile pressed connected details astir his imaginable timeline. "I'm not asking for much. I conscionable — I don't — they can't person a atomic weapon."

When asked astir the imaginable for subject enactment if Iran does not marque a woody connected their atomic weapons, Trump said "Absolutely." 

"If it requires military, we're going to person military," the president told reporters. "Israel volition evidently beryllium precise overmuch progressive successful that. They'll beryllium the person of that. But cipher leads us. We bash what we privation to do."

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Donald Trump (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA; Handout via Reuters/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo)

TRUMP SAYS US WILL DEAL ‘DIRECTLY’ WITH IRAN IN HIGH-LEVEL MEETING ON SATURDAY

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed enactment for Iran's implicit denuclearization. During a sojourn to the White House, helium expressed enactment for a woody akin to the 1 Libya sealed with the planetary assemblage successful 2003. The state gave up its full atomic arsenal.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, talks to President Donald Trump during a gathering successful the Oval Office of the White House April 7, 2025, successful Washington, D.C. (Getty Images)

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"Whatever happens, we person to marque definite that Iran does not person atomic weapons," Netanyahu said during the meeting.

The talks with Iran scheduled for Saturday successful Oman person been characterized arsenic "direct" talks by Trump, but Iran's overseas leaders person disputed that assertion, describing the talks arsenic "indirect." Iran's leaders person said if the talks spell good Saturday, they would beryllium unfastened to further nonstop negotiations with the U.S.