US President Donald Trump has claimed that Britain's King Charles agrees with him on preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Speaking at a White House state dinner on Tuesday, April 29, Trump told 120 guests: 'We have militarily defeated that particular opponent and we’re never going to let that opponent, and Charles agrees with me even more than I do, we’re never going to let that opponent have a nuclear weapon.'
The US has been in conflict with Iran since February 28, when joint US-Israel strikes targeted key Iranian sites. Iran retaliated with strikes across the region. A short-term ceasefire is in place, but no long-term peace agreement has been reached.
King Charles and Queen Camilla are on a state visit to the US. Earlier on Tuesday, the King addressed the US Congress to a standing ovation. Trump congratulated him on 'a fantastic speech'. In his own remarks at the dinner, the King referenced historical difficulties in the US-UK relationship, saying: 'When my mother visited in 1957, not the least of her tasks was to help put the “special” back into our relationship after a crisis in the Middle East. Nearly 70 years on, it is hard to imagine anything like that happening today.'
Guests at the dinner included golfer Rory McIlroy, Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, Apple chief Tim Cook, US secretary of state Marco Rubio, UK foreign secretary Yvette Cooper, US defence secretary Pete Hegseth, and General Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
