Trump says U.S. close to a nuclear deal with Iran | 15 May 2025 | President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United States was getting very close to securing a nuclear deal with Iran, and Tehran had "sort of" agreed to the terms. "We're in very serious negotiations with Iran for long-term peace," Trump said on a tour of the Gulf, according to a shared pool report by AFP. "We're getting close to maybe doing a deal without having to do this...there (are) two steps to doing this, there is a very, very nice step and there is the violent step, but I don't want to do it the second way," he said.