# Trump: ‘I’d rather make a deal with Iran; I don’t want to kill people’

https://mins.news/en/video/14621

- Al Jazeera English, 2026-08-06 00:01 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXTAg8IAAEY

> US President Donald Trump says continuing negotiations between Washington and Tehran could prevent another American military strike on Iran. Speaking at a public event in Las Vegas, he claimed the United States had been readying what he called its largest attacks since World War Two. Trump alleged that Iranian officials had asked Washington to refrain from carrying out the strikes, a claim Tehran has denied. He said the talks remain under way and stressed that he would prefer reaching an agreement to killing people.

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