During a Fox News interview over the weekend, President Trump confirmed that he expects more countries to join the Abraham Accords — a series of treaties that he put together during his first term that already includes the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco — following the U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Sunday Morning Futures host Maria Bartiromo asked Trump if “any other country suggested” they wanted to join the accords.
“Yes, so we have some really great countries in there right now, and I think we’re going to start loading them up because Iran was the primary problem. I actually thought Iran would, I actually, we had a period of time where I thought Iran would join the Abraham Accords along with everybody else, and frankly they would have been better off than where they are right now,” Trump said.
Bartiromo asked Trump if Syria in particular would enter the Abraham Accords.
“Well, I don’t know, but I did take off the sanctions at the request of some of the other countries in the area that are friends of ours,” Trump replied. “I took off the sanctions on Syria to give them a chance at, you know, the sanctions are biting. They’re very strong. And we have sanctions on Iran, too. And you know, you take them off when, I sort of gave the expression today, you get more sometimes with honey than you do with vinegar.”
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.@MariaBartiromo: “Has any other country suggested to you… that they want to join the Abraham Accords?”@POTUS: “Yes. So, we have some really great countries in there right now and I think we’re going to start loading them up because Iran was the primary problem.” pic.twitter.com/LD6AKsPqKU
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