Trump says Iran deal ‘on borderline’: US President Donald Trump said Iran talks are “on the borderline” and warned the US is ready to act quickly if Tehran fails to give “100 per cent good answers”. “It’s right on the borderline… believe me. If we don’t get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We are ready to go. We have to get the right answers. It would have to be complete 100 per cent good answers, and if we do, we save a lot of time, energy and lives,” he said while responding to a reporter’s question on Iran.

Trump says Netanyahu will follow his lead on Iran: Trump said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would “do whatever I want him to do” on Iran, while praising him as a “great guy” who is “not treated well in Israel”. “Netanyahu will do whatever I want him to do (on Iran), he is a great guy who is not treated well in Israel,” he said. Trump and Netanyahu, according to US media reports, held a tense phone call over the future of the Iran conflict, as Washington explored diplomatic options instead of the resumption of strikes. Following the telephonic conversation, Netanyahu’s “hair was on fire”, US media outlet Axios reported, as the Israeli prime minister wanted to resume the strikes to degrade the Islamic regime’s military capabilities.

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