Trump says Iran has 'agreed to never have nuclear weapons' as US to 'send 3,000 more airborne troops' to Middle East
The President said Tehran was "talking sense" and reinforced their so-called desire to make a deal to end the conflict
Donald Trump claims Iran has agreed to "never have nuclear weapons" amid reports the US is planning to send around 3,000 troops to the Middle East.
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Speaking at the White House on Tuesday evening, the President said "They've agreed they'll never have a nuclear weapon."
He also said that Iran was "talking sense" to the US, and added: "The other side, I can tell you, they'd like to make a deal.
"Who wouldn't if you were them? Their navy's gone, their air force is gone, their communications, all of their anti-aircraft, their missiles.
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"Can you name a single thing that's not gone? Or one thing that's doing well?"
But the suggestions of the early stages of a potential peace deal come after it was revealed on Tuesday that the President is planning to send around 3,000 troops to the Middle East.
Formal orders to send the soldiers, who are reportedly from the US army's 82nd airborne unit, is expected to be released later on Tuesday evening.
Trump remained in a jubilant mood as he reiterated his stance that the US had already "won" the war.
He told reporters: "We've won this war. This war has been won."
He added: "You read the New York Times, it's like we're not winning a war where they [Iran] have no navy and they have no air force, and they have no nothing.
"We literally have planes flying over Tehran and other parts of their country. They can't do a thing about it."
Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, special envoy Steve Witkoff and US secretary of states Marco Rubio are said to be leading negotiations with the assistance of Vice President JD Vance.
On Monday, the President told Iran it had "one more chance at peace" amid conflicting reports that the two nations had undergone preliminary discussions for a ceasefire.
According to reports in the US, Trump is set to give the go-ahead to send the airborne soldiers to the Middle East, although the precise location is so far unknown.
If the move does go ahead, it's possible the soldiers could be deployed to Kharg Island in Iran, which has already come under fire from the US.
The landmass handles around 90 per cent of Iranian oil exports. A White House official previously told Axios: "[Trump] wants Hormuz open.
"If he has to take Kharg Island to make it happen, that's going to happen. If he decides to have a coastal invasion, that’s going to happen.
"We’ve always had boots on the ground in conflicts under every president, including Trump."
The President has previously played down suggestions he could send "boots on the ground" to fight the ongoing war and hinted last week he may "wind down" the war.
Earlier on Tuesday, Trump also suggested the idea to strike Iran actually came from his Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth.
He said: "I called a lot of our great people and I said, ‘Let's talk. We got a problem in the Middle East.
"We have a country known as Iran that, for 47 years, has been just a purveyor of terror, and they're close to a nuclear weapon.
"And Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up. And you said, 'Let’s do it, because you can’t let them have a nuclear weapon.'"
Any possibility of early peace talks seemed to have disappeared after a wave of missiles was fired at Israel on Monday, a day after Trump declared peace talks with Tehran had been "good and constructive".
Air raid sirens and blasts from interceptions could be heard across Tel Aviv, with six people said to have been lightly injured in the strikes.
Iran also hit the Eilat area in southern Israel, as well as the cities of Dimona and Yeruham.