Trump deadline to Iran on nuke deal gets closer

Donald Trump certainly knows how to up the ante. He gave Tehran until May to start negotiating a deal to suspend or end its nuclear programme and the time is drawing fast. Meanwhile he has sent six B-2 Spirit bombers to Diega Garcia in preparation for what one can only imagine is a potential massive attack on Iran's nuke facilities. The fact that Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington today means the two men will talk about Iran and what their two countries can do together to strike at Iran. At the moment the extraordinary presence of six B-2s in Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean is clearly aimed at putting maximum pressure on Tehran to start negotiations....or else. With the world's financial markets in chaos over Trump's tariff war the last thing the planet needs is a new war in the Middle East. But that's the way it's being played from the White House. I can see Trump's thick pen poised for his next big venture. Joe Biden did nothing about Iran's nuke programme. Trump is not going to let it go. It's possible that the ayatollahs will get the message.