Trump’s comments came as bipartisan opposition mounted in Washington overnight, with several current and former lawmakers and officials criticising aspects of the deal that began to leak.
“Both sides must take their time and get it right,” Trump wrote in the same Truth Social post, while slamming the 2015 nuclear deal that former President Barack Obama agreed with Iran.
While the White House has not released aspects of the deal, Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said on Saturday on state television that the two sides were nearing “a memorandum of understanding, a kind of framework agreement composed of 14 clauses”, in “a trend toward rapprochement”.
Later that day, Trump wrote on Truth Social that an agreement was “largely negotiated” but “subject to finalisation”.
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