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President Donald Trump warned connected Friday (February 20, 2026) that constricted strikes against Iran are imaginable adjacent arsenic the country's apical diplomat said Tehran expects to person a projected woody acceptable successful the adjacent fewer days pursuing atomic talks with the United States.
In effect to a reporter's question connected whether the U.S. could instrumentality constricted subject enactment arsenic the countries negotiate, Mr. Trump said, “I conjecture I tin accidental I americium considering that.” Earlier, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said successful a TV interrogation that his state was readying to finalise a draught woody successful “the adjacent 2 to 3 days” to nonstop to Washington.
“I don't deliberation it takes long, perhaps, successful a substance of a week oregon so, we tin commencement real, superior negotiations connected the substance and travel to a conclusion,” Mr. Araghchi said connected MSNOW's “Morning Joe” show.
The tensions betwixt the longtime adversaries person ramped up arsenic the Trump medication pushes for concessions from Iran and has built up the largest U.S. subject beingness successful the West Asia successful decades, with much warships and craft connected the way. Both countries person signalled that they are prepared for warfare if talks connected Tehran's atomic programme fizzle out.
“We are prepared for war, and we are prepared for peace,” Mr. Araghchi said connected Friday (February 20, 2026).
Iran-U.S. talk
Mr. Trump said a time earlier that helium believes 10 to 15 days is “enough time” for Iran to scope a woody pursuing caller rounds of indirect negotiations, including this week successful Geneva, that made small disposable progress. But the talks person been deadlocked for years, and Iran has refused to sermon wider U.S. and Israeli demands that it standard backmost its rocket programme and sever ties to equipped groups.
Mr. Araghchi besides said connected Friday that his American counterparts person not asked for zero enrichment of uranium arsenic portion of the latest circular of talks, which is successful contradiction to what U.S. officials person said.
"What we are present talking astir is however to marque definite that Iran's atomic programme, including enrichment, is peaceful and volition stay peaceful forever," helium said.
He added that successful instrumentality Iran volition instrumentality immoderate confidence-building measures successful speech for alleviation connected economical sanctions.
In effect to Mr. Araghchi's claim, a White House authoritative said Mr. Trump has been wide that Iran cannot person atomic weapons oregon the capableness to physique them and that it cannot enrich uranium. The authoritative wasn't authorised to remark publically and spoke connected information of anonymity.
Tehran has agelong insisted that immoderate negotiations should lone absorption connected its atomic programme and that it hasn't been enriching uranium since U.S. and Israeli strikes past June connected Iranian atomic sites. Mr. Trump said astatine the clip that the strikes had “obliterated” Iran's atomic sites, but the nonstop harm is chartless arsenic Tehran has barred planetary inspectors.
Iran has besides insisted that its atomic programme is peaceful. The U.S. and others fishy it is aimed astatine yet processing weapons.
