{"id":81425,"date":"2026-02-28T23:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=81425"},"modified":"2026-02-28T23:53:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:53:00","slug":"trump-iran-would-need-years-to-recover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/trump-iran-would-need-years-to-recover\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says Iran Would Need \u201cYears\u201d to Recover from Latest Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President <a title=\"Trump: \u201cIran Strike Was Reckless\u201d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/new-york-times-trump-iran-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> stated that Iran came close to finalizing a nuclear agreement but ultimately withdrew, casting doubt on Tehran\u2019s willingness to reach a deal. He also argued that the recent military strikes would set Iran back for years.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u201cThey Came Close to a Deal\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Speaking to Israel\u2019s N12 channel, Trump said Iranian officials were on the verge of an agreement before stepping back. He claimed this showed that Tehran did not genuinely want to conclude a nuclear deal.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u201cWe Are on the Same Page\u201d with Netanyahu<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Trump described his latest phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as \u201cgood,\u201d adding that the two leaders are aligned in their approach.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Military Options on the Table<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Outlining potential US military options, Trump said Washington could either expand the campaign and \u201ctake over everything\u201d or bring operations to an end within days. He warned that if Iran rebuilds any nuclear weapons capability, the United States would launch new attacks.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>\u201cIt Will Take Years to Recover\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The US president said the latest wave of strikes inflicted serious damage, adding that it would take Iran \u201ca few years\u201d to recover.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Joint Operation After Nuclear Talks<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Israel and the United States launched a joint military operation against Iran early Saturday, citing alleged threats posed by the \u201cIranian regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The strikes followed the latest round of US-Iran nuclear talks in Geneva on Thursday, which both sides had described as serious and constructive under Omani mediation.<\/p>\n<p>Last June, during a 12-day Israel-Iran conflict, the US struck three Iranian nuclear sites.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"'The president is putting thousands of lives at risk': Rep. Seth Moulton on strikes on Iran\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_j78cfxQFs8\" width=\"951\" height=\"535\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump stated that Iran came close to finalizing a nuclear agreement but ultimately withdrew, casting doubt on Tehran\u2019s willingness to reach a deal. He also argued that the recent military strikes would set Iran back for years. \u201cThey Came Close to a Deal\u201d Speaking to Israel\u2019s N12 channel, Trump said Iranian officials &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9192199,"featured_media":81428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,25,14],"tags":[77263,1134,267,77159,11622,1133],"class_list":["post-81425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-america","category-world","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-nuclear-talks","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9192199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81429,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81425\/revisions\/81429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}