After decades of antagonism, could President Donald Trump create a lasting peace with Iran? In The New York Sun, Benny Avni reports that a deal has, according to Trump, “sort of” been agreed to. Avni writes:

Tehran has “sort of” agreed to a new nuclear deal, President Trump said Thursday while wrapping up his whirlwind Mideast trip. If so, either America or Iran have retreated from what had been perceived as firm demands, with Washington insisting on the Iranians ending uranium enrichment and dismantling the existing nuclear infrastructure, which the Islamic Republic opposes.

“I think we’re getting close to maybe doing a deal without having to do this,” Mr. Trump says, referring to a kinetic attack on the Iranian nuclear facilities. “You probably read today the story about Iran. It’s sort of agreed” to American terms.

The president was referring to an NBC interview with a top aide to Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Shamkhani, who said Iran might agree to halt production of highly enriched uranium but insisted that it would continue to enrich at a lower level.

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Watch Trump’s comments:

.@POTUS: “You probably read today the story about Iran has sort of agreed to the terms. They’re not going to make, I call it in a friendly way, ‘nuclear dust’… I want them to succeed. I want them to end up being a great country frankly, but they can’t have a nuclear weapon.” pic.twitter.com/0s27Qm6qZy

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