Trump says the new nuclear deal he is negotiating with Iran will be “much better” than the previous one: “I have no pressure”

US President Donald Trump said on Monday that the nuclear deal he says the US is currently negotiating with Iran will be much better than the 2015 deal that limited Tehran's nuclear program, but which Washington pulled out of after a decision by Trump three years later.

“THE AGREEMENT we make with Iran will be MUCH BETTER than the JCPOA, usually referred to as the “Iranian Nuclear Agreement”, the Republican president wrote on his Truth Social platform, following concerns expressed by the Democratic opposition and some experts in the nuclear field who estimate that he is speeding up negotiations on an extremely complex topic, Reuters and Agerpres report.

In 2018, during his first term in the White House, Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) agreement related to the Iranian nuclear program, stating at the time that it was “the worst agreement ever made”.

Washington then reimposed sanctions on Iran, which has responded with successive violations of commitments under the deal and exceeded limits on uranium enrichment, the reason now cited by the US and Israel for the war launched on February 28 against Iran and halted by a two-week truce that expires on Wednesday.

After a failed first round of US-Iranian negotiations in Islamabad, the prospects for a second round of talks are still unclear, while Pakistan, which has imposed itself as a mediator, continues its efforts to host this second round of negotiations.

Iran-US mediation talks focus on fully reopening the Strait of Hormuz and finding a solution to Iran's highly enriched uranium, either by removing it from the country or by diluting it, key conditions set by the US and Israel for a deal

“I am under absolutely no pressure, although it will all happen relatively quickly!” Trump added in his post on Monday.

But it remains unclear what kind of agreement of this kind could be credibly concluded by the US and Iran in the short term. The 2015 agreement, which also involved France, Germany, China, Britain and Russia, required two years of negotiations and the work of approximately 200 specialists in the fields of nuclear physics, finance, law and sanctions enforcement.

Trump, avalanche of messages on Truth Social: I am winning the war with Iran “BY A LOT”

In fact, American President Donald Trump unleashed himself on the Truth Social network, with several successive messages, writes News.ro. After saying that his deal with Iran would be “much better” than the Obama-era deal, he also said that “things are going very well” and that the US military has behaved “extraordinarily” in the conflict with the Iranians.

He is winning the war with Iran “BY A LOT,” Trump says, adding that “things are going very well” and that the US military has performed “extraordinarily.”

Trump then criticizes the way the American media presents the war, mentioning the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

He goes on to talk about the US blockade on all ships entering or leaving Iranian ports, which he says is “completely destroying Iran” and which the US “will not lift until there is a 'DEAL'”.

“I'm losing 500 million dollars a day, an unbearable amount, even in the short term,” he says, referring to Iran.

In a separate post, the US president says that an agreement with Iran will be reached “relatively quickly!”.

He also denies being under “pressure” to make a deal. “IT IS NOT TRUE!” he adds.

The Iranian leadership forced hundreds of ships to head to the United States, especially Texas, Louisiana and Alaska, to deliver its oil, he wrote in another post.

“Very unlikely” to extend the truce

The truce with Iran will expire “Wednesday evening, Washington time”, declared Donald Trump on Monday, this time for the Bloomberg agency, considering the extension of the truce with Iran “very improbable”, notes News.ro.

The truce was originally supposed to last two weeks and began on the evening of April 7.

“I'm not going to rush into a bad deal. We have all the time in the world,” Trump said in the interview.

When asked if he expected fighting to resume immediately if no deal was reached, Trump said: “If no deal is reached, I certainly expect that.”

Previously, Trump oscillated between accepting and refusing the extension of the truce. During a question-and-answer session with journalists last week, he was asked five times whether he would extend the truce, and he gave three different answers, CNN notes.

Washington hosts a new round of negotiations between Israel and Lebanon

Meanwhile, representatives of Israel and Lebanon will have a second round of negotiations in Washington on Thursday for a solution to the conflict, but without the participation of the pro-Iranian Shiite group Hezbollah, the United States, which is acting as a mediator, confirmed on Monday, reports the EFE news agency, quoted by Agerpres.

The two delegations will meet in the US capital after a ten-day ceasefire in the Israeli military offensive in southern Lebanon came into effect on April 16.

“The United States will host a second round of ambassadorial negotiations between Israel and Lebanon on Thursday, April 23, at the State Department,” said a spokesman for this institution, where the ambassadors of Israel and Lebanon to the US, Yechiel Leiter and Nada Hamadeh, already met on April 14.

After the US and Israel launched the war against Iran on February 28, the Israeli military began a campaign of airstrikes on March 2 and then a ground offensive on Lebanese territory against Hezbollah.

Until the truce started on April 16, the death toll in Lebanon is over 2,300 dead, and over a million people have been displaced.

The Lebanese government rejected Iran's involvement in the talks it is having with the US in Pakistan and decided to carry out these negotiations directly with Israel, despite Hezbollah's protests.

Trump insists that Israel did not convince him to launch the war in Iran

Donald Trump reiterated on Monday that Israel did not convince him to attack Iran, after reports emerged that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had influenced the US president's decision to launch the war against Tehran.

“Israel never convinced me to go to war with Iran, the effects of October 7th (Hamas attacks on Israel) added to my lifelong opinion that IRAN CAN NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON,” Donald Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social network.

He also said that “the results in Iran will be amazing”, and “if the new leaders of the country (regime change!) are intelligent, Iran can have a great and prosperous future!”.