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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Trump Won't Say Whether He Will Move Forward With U.S. Strikes on Iran [Watch (HLS stream): Trump Won't Say Whether He Will Move Forward With U.S. Strikes on Iran](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/DRgmof6Y.m3u8) (3:10)  _Published 2025-06-18. President Donald Trump would not say Wednesday whether he has decided to order a U.S. strike on Iran, a move that Tehran warned anew would be greeted with stiff retaliation if it happens. “I may do it, I may not do it," Trump said in an exchange with reporters at the White House . “I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do.” Trump added that it’s not “too late” for Iran to give up its nuclear program as he continues to weigh direct U.S. involvement in Israel's military operations aimed at crushing Tehran's nuclear program._ --- Jun 18, 2025 4:20 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Trump Expects Iran to Open Itself to Inspection to Verify It Doesn't Restart Its Nuclear Program](/video/kfgEWhrJ/) ### Trump Expects Iran to Open Itself to Inspection to Verify It Doesn't Restart Its Nuclear Program [U.S. Senators React to Intensifying Conflict Between Israel and Iran ](/video/MnoERXpW/) ### U.S. Senators React to Intensifying Conflict Between Israel and Iran [Iran Just Threatened to Restart Its Nuclear Program if the U.S. Continues With Sanctions](/video/qXeY9Yg2/) ### Iran Just Threatened to Restart Its Nuclear Program if the U.S. Continues With Sanctions --- ## Transcript You don't know that I'm going to even do it. You don't know? I may do it. I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I'm going to do. I can tell you this, that Iran's got a lot of trouble and they want to negotiate. And I said, why didn't you negotiate with me before all this death and destruction? Why didn't you go? I said to the people, why didn't you negotiate with me two weeks ago? You could have done fine. You would have had a country. It's very sad to watch this. I mean, I've never. I've never seen anything like it. It's so, you know, everyone thought it was going to be the reverse. I didn't I didn't think so. And I was telling him, you got to. You got to do something. You got to negotiate. And at the last minute they said, no, we're not going to do that. And they got hit. Remember 60 days. And then came the 60. 61 is going to become a very famous number. That was one hell of a hit. That first hit, that was one hell of a hit. Not sustainable to be honest. That's where it ended. It ended on the first night? Yes. Is it too late, though? Do you think it's too late to now? Really? Nothing's too late. The only thing too late is Powell. Powell's too late. Too late. Powell. The Iranians. Mr. president, what have Iranians reached out to you? Yes. And what did they say? I said it's very late, you know. I said, it's very late to be talking. We may meet. It's it's, uh, I don't know. There's a big difference between now and a week ago. Right? Big difference. I just said we may meet. Is this about Vance and Woodruff possibly going to talk? It's about anybody. They even suggested they come to the white House. It's a big difference. But they've suggested that they come to the white House. That's, you know, courageous. But, you know, it's like, not easy for them to do. But they suggest, because I can't go now because of what's going on. I had to come back early from the G7, which was terrific, by the way, in Canada. Really terrific. Good people. Two, two very simple words, very simple, unconditional surrender. That means I've had it. Okay, I've had it. I give up no more. Then we go blow up all the, you know, all the nuclear stuff that's all over the place there. No, they had bad intentions, you know, the for 40 years they've been saying death to America, death to Israel, death to anybody else that they didn't like. They were bullies. They were schoolyard bullies. And now they're not bullies anymore. But we'll see what happens. Look, nothing's finished until it's finished. You know, war is very complex. A lot of bad things can happen. A lot of turns are made. So, I don't know. I wouldn't say that we won anything yet. I would say that, uh, we sure as hell made a lot of progress. And we'll see. The next week is going to be very big. Maybe less than a week, maybe less. But is there anybody here that said it would be okay to have to have a hostile, uh, very, you know, zealots, really, but to have a hostile country have a nuclear weapon that could destroy 25 miles, but much more than that could destroy other nations just by the breeze blowing the dust. You know, that dust blows to other nations and they get decimated. 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