Trump says US will deal 'directly' with Iran in high-level meeting on Saturday

President Donald Trump connected Monday said the U.S. volition prosecute "directly" with Iran successful a high-level gathering acceptable to hap this coming Saturday. 

"We person a precise large gathering connected Saturday, and we're dealing with them directly," Trump told reporters from the Oval Office portion sitting adjacent to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 

The announced gathering is the archetypal known clip the U.S. volition straight prosecute with Iran since the erstwhile Trump administration, erstwhile it withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) successful 2018. 

President Donald Trump speaks during a gathering with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu successful the Oval Office of the White House connected April 7, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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"We’ll spot what tin happen. I deliberation everybody agrees that doing a woody would beryllium preferable to doing the obvious," Trump said successful notation to his menace past week successful which helium said helium would "bomb" Iran if it didn’t participate talks to extremity its atomic program.

"[That’s] not thing that I privation to beryllium progressive with, oregon frankly, that Israel wants to beryllium progressive with, if they tin debar it," Trump continued. "We're going to spot if we tin debar it. 

"It's getting to beryllium precise unsafe territory," Trump warned. "And hopefully those talks volition beryllium successful."

Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei views Iranian atomic achievements connected Sunday, June 11. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA/Reuters)

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The president refused to item wherever the talks would instrumentality spot oregon however they would disagree from the JCPOA, saying lone that they volition beryllium "different" and "stronger."

Following the U.S. withdrawal from the agreement, the atomic woody fundamentally collapsed contempt the remaining signatories – which included the U.K., China, France, Russia and Germany – and Iran began rapidly processing its atomic program. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and nationalist information advisor Michael Waltz successful the Oval Office of the White House connected April 7, 2025.  (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Earlier this year, the U.N. atomic watchdog warned that Tehran had amassed capable near-weapons-grade enriched uranium to physique 5 atomic weapons if the uranium were further enriched. 

"I deliberation if the talks aren't palmy with Iran… Iran is going to beryllium successful large danger," Trump said Monday.

It is unclear if Israel, oregon immoderate different nations, volition beryllium progressive successful the talks, though Netanyahu made wide Jerusalem is aligned with the U.S. successful securing a woody to extremity Iran’s atomic program.

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"We're some agreed successful the extremity that Iran does not ever get atomic weapons, that it tin beryllium done diplomatically successful a afloat way, the mode it was done successful Libya," Netanyahu told reporters. "I deliberation that would beryllium a bully thing. 

"But immoderate happens, we person to marque definite that Iran does not person atomic weapons," helium added.