Trump says US has ‘won’ Iran war but ‘I want to win by a bigger margin’

President Trump said on Thursday that he is not satisfied with the current standing between the U.S. and Iran, amid stalled nuclear deal negotiations between the two countries. 

“We’ve already won, but I want to win by a bigger margin,” Trump told Newsmax’s Greta Van Susteren. 

“We’ve destroyed everything. If we leave right now, it will take them 20 years to rebuild, if they ever could rebuild, but it’s actually not good enough,” the president said. “We have to have guarantees they will never have a nuclear weapon.”

Trump also warned that Iran would “use the nuclear weapon if they had it.” 

“I know people,” the president told Van Susteren. “They will use the nuclear weapon, and we’re not going to give them a chance to do it.”

The U.S. and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran on Feb. 28, killing its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and other top officials. The U.S. is attempting to broker a new nuclear deal with Iran, after Trump exited a pre-existing agreement with the........

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