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U.S. President Donald Trump warned Iran connected Thursday (February 19, 2026) that it indispensable scope a deal implicit its atomic programme oregon "bad things" volition happen, and appeared to acceptable a 10-day deadline before the U.S. mightiness instrumentality action.
Amid a monolithic U.S. subject buildup successful the West Asia that has fueled fears of a wider war, Mr. Trump said negotiations with Iran were going good but insisted Tehran has to scope a "meaningful" agreement.
"Otherwise atrocious things happen," Mr. Trump, who has repeatedly threatened to onslaught Iran, told the archetypal gathering of his Board of Peace in Washington.
Trump spoke of the U.S. airstrikes carried retired successful June, saying Iran's atomic imaginable had been "decimated," adding "we whitethorn person to instrumentality it a measurement further oregon we whitethorn not."
"You’ll beryllium uncovering out implicit the adjacent astir apt 10 days," helium said, without elaborating.
‘Good talks’: Trump
U.S. threats to weaponry Iran, with the two sides acold isolated successful talks connected Tehran's atomic programme, person pushed up lipid prices, and a Russian corvette warship connected Thursday (February 19, 2026) joined planned Iranian naval drills successful the Gulf of Oman, a captious oversea way for planetary energy.
Iranian and U.S. negotiators met connected Tuesday and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said they had agreed connected "guiding principles." White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said connected Wednesday (February 18, 2026), however, that the 2 sides remained isolated on immoderate issues.
Mr. Trump said "good talks are being had," and a elder U.S. authoritative said Iran would marque a written connection connected however to code U.S. concerns.
Mr. Trump called connected Tehran to articulation the U.S. connected the "path to peace."
"They can't person a atomic weapon, it's precise simple," helium said. "You can't person bid successful the Middle East if they have a atomic weapon."
Iran has resisted making large concessions connected its atomic programme, though insisting it is for peaceful purposes. The U.S. and Israel successful the past person accused Tehran of trying to make a atomic bomb. Earlier connected Thursday (February 19, 2026), Russia warned against an "unprecedented escalation of tension" astir Iran and urged restraint amid the U.S. subject buildup successful the region, which a elder American authoritative said should beryllium implicit by mid-March.
Threat of war
Mr. Trump has sent craft carriers, warships and jets to the region, raising the imaginable of different attack connected the Islamic Republic. The United States and Israel bombed Iran's atomic facilities and immoderate subject sites past June. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio volition conscionable Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to sermon Iran connected February 28, the elder U.S. authoritative said.
Washington wants Iran to wholly springiness up uranium enrichment, a process utilized to make substance for atomic powerfulness plants but that tin besides supply worldly for a warhead.
The U.S. and state Israel besides privation Iran to springiness up long-range ballistic missiles, halt supporting groups astir the West Asia and halt utilizing unit to quell interior protests.
Iran says it refuses to sermon issues beyond the atomic file, calling efforts to bounds its rocket arsenal a reddish line. Satellite pictures person tracked some Iranian enactment to repair and fortify sites since past summer, showing enactment astatine some atomic and rocket sites, arsenic good arsenic preparations astatine U.S. bases crossed the West Asia implicit the past month.
Iran's associated workout with Russia came days into an extended bid of Iranian naval drills successful the Gulf of Oman, with Iranian authorities tv showing peculiar forces units deployed connected helicopters and ships.
In a motion of increasing interest implicit the accrued tensions, Poland connected Thursday (February 19, 2026) became the latest European state to impulse its citizens to leave Iran, with Prime Minister Donald Tusk saying Poles whitethorn lone person hours to evacuate. Mr. Trump began threatening strikes connected Iran again successful January arsenic Iranian authorities crushed wide protests with deadly unit that near thousands dormant across the country.
