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Investing.com -- U.S. President Donald Trump expressed decreasing confidence that Iran will agree to stop uranium enrichment as part of a nuclear deal with Washington, according to an interview released on Wednesday.
In the "Pod Force One" podcast recorded on Monday, Trump responded with uncertainty when asked if he thought he could get Iran to shut down its nuclear program.
"I don’t know. I don’t know. I did think so, and I’m getting more and more — less confident about it," Trump stated in the interview.
The president told White House reporters on Monday that he had discussed Iran with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and described the talks with Iranians as "tough."
Trump suggested in the podcast that Iranian officials appear to be employing delaying tactics in the negotiations.
"I’m less confident now than I would have been a couple of months ago. Something happened to them, but I am much less confident of a deal being made," he said.
The president added that a diplomatic solution would be preferable to conflict, saying: "But it would be nicer to do it without warfare, without people dying, it’s so much nicer to do it. But I don’t think I see the same level of enthusiasm for them to make a deal."
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