Washington 0
22 July 2019

President Trump argued that “I think Iran doesn’t know where they are… right now, they’re a very mixed up country.  They don’t know whether they’re coming or going. They have tremendous problems economically. Their country is in turmoil. They’re having demonstrations all over Iran. Their inflation rate is at 75 per cent. They have a lot of problems”.  He went on to say that “we are ready for the absolute worst.  And we’re ready for sense, too.  But we are very geared up”. “If they want to make a deal, it’s – frankly, it’s getting harder for me to want to make a deal with Iran because they behave very badly”, Trump added. “It could go either way very easily. Very easily. And I’m okay either way it goes”.

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