President Donald Trump told Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst that “very big things are going to be happening in the not-so-distant future” on Iran and that “my question is, if and when do I blow the entire nation up?”
In a Sunday morning appearance on Fox & Friends Weekend Yingst reported he had just spoken with Trump and conveyed the substance of his conversation with the audience.
“He tells Fox News he’s in a ‘deciding mode’ and that ‘very big things are going to be happening in the not-so-distant future,'” Yingst said. “The president described the current choices on the table as ‘wiping Iran out, letting them rot economically or making a deal.’ He added, ‘My question is, if and when do I blow the entire nation up? They better behave.'”
The comments resemble remarks Trump made to Axios’s Barak Ravid on Thursday when he said, “Do I want to go in and annihilate them or do I not?
Trump is attending the United Nations General Assembly later this week — as is Iranian President Pasoud Pezeshkian. Yingst asked Trump if he would be open to a meeting with the Iranian leader, and he responded “probably.”
“But [he] described this weekend as no different from any other weekend, despite these alerts that went out to U.S. Citizens across the region,” Yingst said. “Remember, a lot of moving parts here. It’s not just the situation with Iran and the ongoing U.S. naval blockade, but also the attacks by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen that targeted Saudi Arabia yesterday with ballistic missiles. The president said the United States is in constant communication with the Houthis and that they’ve agreed not to fight the United States.”
Watch above, via Fox News.
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