President Trump has vowed to exert “maximum pressure” on Iran if they fail to reach an agreement with America.The US president spoke at the Saudi-US Investment Forum in front of Mohammed bin Salman.Trump is undertaking a four-day visit to the Gulf States and criticised Saudi Arabia’s long-term foes.The US president lavished Saudi Arabia with praise - pointing to its vast building projects and the football World Cup.Trump also said it is his “dream” that Saudi signs the Abraham Accords, but did not address the major stumbling block of Israel.Israel’s assault on Gaza, prompted by Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023, has led to Saudi Arabia confirming it will not normalise Israeli relations unless the war ends and progress is made towards the establishment of the Palestinian state.
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00:00Yet I'm here today not merely to condemn the past chaos of Iran's leaders, but to offer
00:06them a new path and a much better path toward a far better and more hopeful future.
00:13As I have shown repeatedly, I am willing to end past conflicts and forge new partnerships
00:18for a better and more stable world, even if our differences may be very profound, which
00:23obviously they are in the case of Iran.
00:27I have never believed in having permanent enemies.
00:31I am different than a lot of people think.
00:34I don't like permanent enemies, but sometimes you need enemies to do the job, and you have
00:39to do it right.
00:41Enemies get you motivated.
00:42In fact, some of the closest friends of the United States of America are nations we fought
00:48wars against in generations past, and now they're our friends and our allies.
00:55I want to make a deal with Iran.
00:57If I can make a deal with Iran, I'll be very happy if we're going to make your region and
01:02the world a safer place.
01:03But if Iran's leadership rejects this olive branch and continues to attack their neighbors,
01:08then we will have no choice but to inflict massive maximum pressure, drive Iranian oil
01:16exports to zero, like I did before.
01:20If you know that, they were a virtually bankrupt country because of what I did.
01:27They had no money for terror.
01:28They had no money for Hamas or Hezbollah, and take all action required to stop the regime
01:34from ever having a nuclear weapon.
01:38Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.