Donald Trump, the U.S. president, once again emphasized that resolving the Iranian nuclear issue is one of the essential conditions of any agreement. He also did not rule out the possibility of resuming broad military attacks after the November midterm elections, and said that Tehran will ultimately be forced to back down and accept the nuclear conditions of the United States.

Much of Trump’s extensive interview with Time magazine, published on Thursday, Mehr 9, is devoted to the war in Iran, negotiations to end the conflict, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a naval blockade, and the nuclear program of the Islamic Republic. In this interview, he emphasized his positions from recent days and repeated them.

In the interview, the U.S. president clearly said that, in his view, the determining issue is Iran’s nuclear program. Trump said Iran should not be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons and considered this one of the main goals of the U.S. military operations and the economic pressure on the Islamic Republic.

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