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Trump: No Preconditions for Talks with Iran, I Don’t Want War

Trump: No Preconditions for Talks with Iran, I Don’t Want War
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By Staff, Agencies

US President Donald Trump doesn’t want war with Iran, but if it happens, there will be “obliteration like you’ve never seen before,” adding that there are “no pre-conditions” for negotiations with Tehran.

In an interview with NBC, Trump said, “You can’t have nuclear weapons,” implying anything else was open to discussion – and if Tehran doesn’t want to talk, “you can live in a shattered economy for a long time to come.”

The statements come after Trump said he had cancelled a Thursday night strike on Iran at the last minute in retaliation for the American spy drone shot down over Iranian airspace.

In remarks to NBC’s Meet the Press, scheduled to air on Sunday, the US president claimed that learning that “150 Iranians” would be killed if he called for the prepared airstrikes made him think twice, realizing that the deaths would not be “proportionate” to the loss of a single unmanned surveillance vehicle. While planes were not yet in the air, the operation was nearly at the point of no return, he said.

Trump stated, he asked his generals, "I want to know something before you go. How many people would be killed, in this case Iranians?"

The generals said around 150 people would die, he added.

So, "I thought about it for a second and I said, you know what, they shot down an unmanned drone, plane, whatever you want to call it, and here we are sitting with a 150 dead people that would have taken place probably within a half an hour after I said go ahead. I didn't like it, I didn't think, I didn't think it was proportionate."

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