Four-star general reveals Iran's Ayatollah isn't cutting peace deal as Trump's countdown begins
By WILL POTTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Published: 10:49 EDT, 20 June 2025 | Updated: 14:52 EDT, 20 June 2025
Iran isn't cutting a US-brokered peace deal with Israel because its leaders are confident they can rebuild its nuclear program even if it's wiped out, a retired general says.
General Jack Keane, the former Vice Chief of Staff to the US Army, told Fox News that Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei believes the country will be able to restart its hydrogen bomb with relative ease after the ongoing conflict with Israel ends.
The US has not joined the conflict. President Trump says he'll decide whether to do so in the next two weeks, after urging Iran to halt its nuclear bomb building.
'The nuclear enterprise is vast, and it is resilient,' Keane told Fox News. '(There are) multiple sites, centrifuges, so you can spin up enriched uranium.
'They did that to survive.'
Keane said the Ayatollah has 'never made a deal' because 'he has built an enterprise to survive an attack' that he believes is strong enough to withstand airstrikes even if President Trump decides to join the conflict.
'He believes they can absorb an attack, survive it, recover from it, and then rebuild. That is where this guy is,' he said.
'I don't see him, in the near term, making a deal here whatsoever.'
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