Trump says two weeks is ‘maximum’ for the Iran decision

US President Donald Trump talks to journalists about his arrival at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, USA, June 20, 2025. – Reuters
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President Donald Trump said Friday that Iran had a “maximum” of two weeks to avoid possible US air strikes, indicating he could make a decision before the fourteen days he set a day earlier.

Trump added that he was not inclined to stop Israel who attacked Iran because it was “won” and rejected European efforts to convey a cessation of the conflict.

“I give them a period and I would say that two weeks would be the maximum,” Trump told journalists when asked if he could decide to beat Iran before that.

He added that the goal was to “see if people come to their sense or not.”

Trump had said on Thursday that he would “make my decision to go within the next two weeks” because there was a “significant chance of negotiations” with Iran.

These comments had been seen widely as opening a two-week window for negotiations to end the war between Israel and Iran, where European powers rush to talk to Tehran.

But his latest remarks indicated that Trump could still make his decision before that if he feels there has been no progress towards running Iran’s nuclear program.

Trump, meanwhile, rejected conversations that European Powers Britain, France, Germany and the EU had with Iran’s Foreign Minister in Geneva on Friday.

Europe ‘didn’t help’

“They didn’t help,” he said when he arrived in Morristown, New Jersey, in front of a Fundraising dinner at his nearby golf club.

“Iran will not talk to Europe. They will talk to us. Europe will not be able to help with this.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said after the Geneva negotiations that Tehran would not resume negotiations with the United States until Israel stopped his attacks.

But Trump was reluctant.

“It’s very difficult to make that request right now,” Trump said.

“If someone wins, it’s a little harder to do than if someone loses, but we’re ready, willing and capable of, and we’ve talked to Iran and we’ll see what’s happening.”

Trump, meanwhile, doubled on his claims that Iran is weeks away from being able to produce an atomic bomb, despite divisions in his own administration on the intelligence behind his assessment.

Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, said in a March report that Iran was not close to having enough enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon.

“She’s wrong,” Trump said of Gabbard, a long -standing opponent of US foreign intervention, which Trump tapped to coordinate the scattered American spy community.

Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.

‘450 missiles’

Since Israel launched its offensive on June 13 and targeted nuclear and military places, but also hitting residential areas, Iran has reacted with barriers, as Israeli authorities say, have killed at least 25 people.

A hospital in the Israeli port of Haifa reported 19 wounded, including a person in serious condition, after the latest Iranian Salvo.

More than 450 missiles have so far fired against the country along with about 400 drones, according to Israel’s national public diplomacy -Directorate.

Iran said on Sunday that Israeli strikes had killed at least 224 people, including military commands, nuclear scientists and civilians. It has not updated the toll since.

An American-based NGO, Human Rights Activists News Agency, delivered a toll on Friday based on its sources and media reports that said at least 657 people were killed in Iran, including 263 civilians.

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