Trump Says a Formal Ceasefire Agreement Between Israel and Iran Isn’t Necessary

The president said the nations are “both tired.”

President Donald Trump speaks during a media conference at the end of the NATO summit.
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President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he wasn’t particularly interested in getting Iran and Israel to sign an agreement formalizing a ceasefire, saying he had resolved the long-running tensions between the two nations.

Although his administration is meeting with Iran in the coming days, he said he isn’t prioritizing getting an agreement signed.

“To me, I don’t think it’s that necessary,” he said of a formal ceasefire agreement while speaking to reporters at a NATO summit in the Netherlands. “I mean, they had a war they fought. Now they’re going back to their world. I don’t care if I have an agreement or not, the only thing we’d be asking for is what we were asking for before, about we want no nuclear, but we, we destroyed the nuclear.”