Following his state visit to China, President Donald Trump continued to stress that Iran cannot possess nuclear weapons.
During an interview with FOX News’ Bret Baier, the president said Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed, and said the U.S. did not need any assistance from China to find a resolution to the war in Iran.
‘I don’t think about anybody,’ Trump says
The ongoing war’s ripple effects continue to cause pain at the pump for Americans, but Trump stood by his statement he made before his trip to China, saying high gas prices were worth the sole goal of preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons.
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“When people hear me say it, everybody agrees,” Trump told Baier, saying that higher gasoline prices were just “short-term pain.”
7:41 p.m. ET: Iran’s foreign minister signaled Friday that his country would accept diplomatic help, including from China, which had just welcomed Trump and a U.S. delegation for a two-day summit.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi blamed the slowing progress of peace negotiations between Iran and the U.S. on a lack of trust. He added that contradictory messages had made Iranian leadership wary of America’s true intentions.
Trump has stated that he wants Iran to give up its highly enriched uranium and aims to prevent the nation from developing nuclear weapons.
Hamas confirms death of senior commander tied to Oct. 7 attacks
4:38 p.m. ET: An Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed the leader of Hamas’ military wing who was one of the last surviving architects of the attacks that triggered the war in late 2023, the Israeli military said Saturday. Hamas confirmed the death.
Izz al-Din al-Haddad was killed on Friday, Israel’s army said, describing him as one of the senior Hamas military commanders who directed the planning and execution of the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, which killed around 1,200 people in southern Israel and saw more than 250 taken hostage.
A Hamas spokesperson, Hazem Qassem, confirmed the killing on social media.
Putin to visit Chinese leader days after Trump
8:50 a.m. ET: Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Jinping on a two-day trip to Beijing next week, the Kremlin said Saturday.
The announcement comes less than 24 hours after U.S. President Donald Trump finished his own state visit to China, where he also met Xi to discuss trade and the U.S. and Israel’s war in Iran.
In a statement, the Kremlin said that Putin’s trip, planned for May 19-20, had been scheduled to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the 2001 Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship.
It said that the two leaders would discuss bilateral relations as well as “key international and regional issues” and economic cooperation.
The Source: Information for this article was taken from FOX News, previous reporting by The Associated and previous FOX Local reporting.
