Donald Trump has made a historic military deployment after he warned that Iran ‘could be in great danger’.
The US and Iran are set to hold ‘direct talks’ over a possible nuclear deal this weekend according to the President, while Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araqchi, said they would be ‘indirect’.
Speaking in the Oval Office on Monday (8 April), Trump said: "We're having direct talks with Iran and they've started, it'll go on Saturday. We have a very big meeting and we'll see what can happen.
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"I think everybody agrees that doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious. And the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with, or frankly that Israel wants to be involved with, if they can avoid it.
"But it's getting to be very dangerous territory, and hopefully those talks will be successful."
The President later insisted that Iran ‘cannot have a nuclear weapon’ and said that if the talks aren’t successful: “I actually think it'll be a very bad day for Iran."
With long running tensions between the two nations, Araqchi told Iranian state news agency IRNA: “Indirect negotiations can guarantee a genuine and effective dialogue.”
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Days before this meeting was confirmed, Trump had threatened Iran as he said to NBC News: “If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing. It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before."
This all comes as satellite images have shown the deployment of six nuclear-capable B-2 bombers on Diego Garcia, a British-owned naval base in the Indian Ocean that has been used by the Pentagon during military campaigns.
It is said that if Trump did launch this ‘bombing’ campaign like ‘never seen before’, it would be largest deployment of B-2s in this way.
The US and Iran have long been foes and Trump said during his chat with reporters earlier this week: “I think everybody agrees that doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious. And the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with, or frankly, that Israel wants to be involved with, if they can avoid it," he added.
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"So we are going to see if we can avoid it, but it's getting to be very dangerous territory, and hopefully those talks will be successful.”
If these talks on Saturday are direct, it would be the first known direct talks since 2018 when Trump pulled out of a deal with Iran that was also with the UK, France, China, Russia and Germany, which saw it limit its nuclear activities.
Trump added of the upcoming meeting: “And I think it would be in Iran's best interests if they are successful.”
LADbible has contacted the US Department of Defence for comment.
Jess Battison