Trump open to talks with Iran but warns it would face “obliteration” if conflict broke out
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President Trump has said he doesn’t want war but warned Iran it would face “obliteration” if conflict broke out.
Speaking to NBC on Friday evening, Trump said the US was open to talks with Iran but would not allow the Tehran regime to develop nuclear weapons.
The Trump administration has now asked the United Nations Security Council to meet on Monday to discuss Iran.
He also expanded on his last-minute decision to call off strikes planned in response to the shooting down of a US unmanned drone this week, saying he had been told 150 Iranians would be killed.
He said a plan of attack was “ready to go, subject to my approval” but said he had then asked generals how many people would be killed.
“I thought about it for a second and I said, you know what, they shot down an unmanned drone, plane, whatever you want to call it, and here we are sitting with a 150 dead people that would have taken place probably within a half an hour after I said go ahead,” he told NBC.
“I didn’t like it. I didn’t think it was proportionate,” he said.
Tehran says the unmanned US aircraft entered Iranian airspace early on Thursday morning. The US maintains it was shot down in international airspace.
