President Donald Trump wants to make a deal with Iran to give that country a brighter future without terrorism and extremism, he said Tuesday at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
“If I can make a deal with Iran, I’ll be very happy if we’re going to make your region and the world a safer place,” he said. “But if Iran’s leadership rejects this olive branch and continues to attack their neighbors, then we will have no choice but to inflict massive maximum pressure drive to Iranian oil exports to zero like I did before.”
Many Middle Eastern leaders want to define the region by commerce rather than chaos, but Iran continues to cause “unthinkable suffering in Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza, Iraq, Yemen, and beyond,” Trump said.
“While the Arab states are focused on becoming pillars of regional stability and world commerce,” he said,…
