Trump teases Iran talks next week, says nuclear programme set back ‘decades’

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States would hold nuclear talks with Iran next week, teasing the possibility of a deal even after boasting that recent US strikes had crippled the Islamic republic’s atomic programme.

Trump credited the unprecedented US attacks with the “total obliteration” of Iran’s nuclear capabilities, and said they had set the country’s programme back “decades”.

But leaked US intelligence cast doubt on that assessment, saying the strikes had likely…