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Trump to Decide ‘Within Two Weeks’ Whether to Take Action on Iran
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6/20/2025
President Donald Trump will make a decision within two weeks on whether to strike on Iran, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters during a press briefing on Thursday.
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I have a message directly from the president, and I quote,
00:03
based on the fact that there's a substantial chance of negotiations
00:07
that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future,
00:11
I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks.
00:15
That's a quote directly from the president for all of you today.
00:19
Is he seeing any signs of progress?
00:21
He obviously is holding out hope for negotiations,
00:23
but is he seeing any inklings of progress that give him that hope that talks are still possible?
00:28
Well, that's why he said in the statement that I just read for all of you,
00:31
based on the fact that there's a substantial chance of negotiations
00:33
that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future,
00:37
he will make that decision within the next two weeks.
00:39
What makes him think there's still a substantial chance is my question.
00:42
I'm not going to get into the reasoning and the rationale.
00:44
The president believes that, but that's his position,
00:46
and he will make a decision within the next two weeks.
00:48
Caroline, what exactly would a deal with Iran need to entail?
00:53
No enrichment of a uranium, and it would absolutely not.
00:57
Iran is absolutely not able to achieve a nuclear weapon.
01:01
The president has been very clear about that.
01:03
And, by the way, the deal that Special Envoy Whitcoff proposed to the Iranians
01:08
was both realistic and acceptable within its terms,
01:11
and that's why the president sent that deal to them.
01:15
Two quick questions.
01:17
When the president says Iran is very close to a nuclear weapon,
01:20
is he relying on U.S. intelligence or intelligence sharing from an ally to make that assessment?
01:25
It is a fact, and the United States government maintains this fact,
01:29
that Iran has never been closer to obtaining a nuclear weapon.
01:33
And then if the U.S. were to take some type of military action,
01:37
would the president go to Congress to seek war authority?
01:43
I'm not going to engage in hypotheticals.
01:45
I gave you the statement from the president.
01:46
He'll make a decision within two weeks.
01:48
Start building a weapon, or did he mean Iran is a few weeks away from completing the production of a weapon?
01:55
I'm glad you asked that, Ouija.
01:57
It's an important question, and it's one, frankly, the media has been getting wrong.
02:00
Let's be very clear.
02:02
Iran has all that it needs to achieve a nuclear weapon.
02:05
All they need is a decision from the supreme leader to do that.
02:09
And it would take a couple of weeks to complete the production of that weapon,
02:12
which would, of course, pose an existential threat not just to Israel,
02:16
but to the United States and to the entire world.
02:19
And that is something that the entire world, including countries like Russia,
02:23
is in agreement with, that Iran should not and cannot obtain a nuclear weapon.
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