Trump energy secretary says, there may not be an Iran nuke deal but US winning anyway

The Trump administration may not cut a nuclear deal with Iran and instead might pursue a policy of obliterating Tehran’s ability to ever obtain a nuke, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday.Wright claimed that the US has already dramatically diminished Iran’s ability to develop a nuke and suggested that President Trump might just remain proactive about undermining Tehran’s abilities rather than seeking a deal.“There may not be a nuclear agreement.It may be simply destroying their capabilities to do it,” Wright told ABC News’ “This Week” on Sunday.

“An agreement may await the next administration in Iran.We simply don’t know that.”“I think what the president was communicating there is how critically important this is,” he went on.

“If Iran has nuclear weapons, the Middle East, the world is a wildly different place than it is today.”The US and Iran had cut a preliminary peace deal, dubbed the memorandum of understanding, that laid out a framework for negotiations over a full-fledged agreement.But the MOU collapsed the following month, and Trump has instead used the military to blockade ships entering and exiting Iran, while working to get oil vessels through the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump has long made clear that his top priority with the war in Iran has been to ensure that the theocratic regime does not obtain a nuclear weapon.Currently, there are questions surrounding Tehran’s activities in the heavily fortified underground facility at Pickaxe Mountain.“We may hit Pickaxe very soon because if there was anything going on with Pickaxe,” Trump recently told reporters.“We know everybody that’s moving at Pickaxe; we know everybody that’s moving everywhere all over Iran.And if anything goes bad, we hit them; we hit them hard.”Last month, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent launched “Operation Economic Outcast” to further tighten the screws on Iran by pressuring countries to cut off business with the Islamic Republic.“This...