13.06.2025 - 14:37 [ PBS.org ]

Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear sites ‘could very well happen,’ Trump says

(June 12, 2025)

Here‘s what the president said earlier today.

Donald Trump, President of the United States: Well, I don‘t want to say imminent, but it looks like it‘s something that could very well happen.

Look, it‘s very simple, not complicated. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Other than that, I want them to be successful. I want them to be tremendous. We will help them be successful. We will trade with them. We will do whatever is necessary. I want to have an agreement with Iran. We‘re fairly close to an agreement. As long as I think there is an agreement, I don‘t want them going in, because I think That would blow it.

Might help it, actually, but it also could blow it. There‘s a chance of massive conflict. We have a lot of American people in this area. And I said, we got to tell them to get out because something could happen soon.