President Trump claimed in his State of the Union address Tuesday night that Iran has developed missiles that can strike US military bases in Europe and elsewhere overseas — and is working on weapons that can reach America itself.
“This is some terrible people,” Trump told lawmakers of the Tehran regime, which rejected what it called “big lies” from Washington. “They’ve already developed missiles that can threaten Europe and our bases overseas, and they’re working to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America.”
The president added that despite US airstrikes on three key Iranian nuclear sites this past June, the Islamic Republic wants to start their atomic weapons program “all over … and are, at this moment, again pursuing their sinister ambitions.
“We are in negotiations with them,” Trump went on. “They want to make a deal but we haven’t heard those secret words: ‘We will never have a nuclear weapon.’”
The next round of talks between Washington and Tehran are set for Thursday in Geneva.