President also says he declined Tehran’s call for him to urge Israel to stop its air strikes, calling request ‘very hard to make’
Asked by a reporter whether the US could launch a strike before the two-week deadline, Trump on Friday replied: “I would say two weeks would be the maximum.”
“If somebody is winning, it’s a little bit harder to do that than if somebody is losing,” Trump said, referring to Israel’s battlefield advantage.
“But we’re ready, willing and able, and we’ve been speaking to Iran, and we’ll see what happens,” he added. “We’ll see what happens.”
