US President Donald Trump has said Britain's King Charles III agrees with him that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon, introducing the subject of the Middle East conflict into comments at a White House state dinner for the visiting royal.
The event was held on Tuesday, on the second day of a four-day visit to the United States.
"We're doing a little Middle East work right now, and we're doing very well," Trump said at the dinner.
"We have militarily defeated that particular opponent, and we're never going to let that opponent ever — Charles agrees with me even more than I do — we're never going to let that opponent have a nuclear weapon."
In his own comments following Trump, Charles did not speak about Iran or the war.
In a speech to Congress earlier also, Charles didn’t mention the Iran war.
The British monarch highlighted the importance of continued US help for Ukraine in its war with Russia, and the dangers of isolationism.
Both Britain and the United States have maintained over the years that Tehran should not develop nuclear weapons.
Tehran denies seeking them but says it has the right to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, including enrichment, as a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The US and Israel launched a war against Iran on February 28. Tehran responded with strikes on what it described as US interests across the region, many of them in Gulf countries.
A ceasefire was announced on April 8 through Pakistani mediation, followed by talks hosted in Islamabad on April 11-12, but the negotiations ended without an agreement.
Trump later said the truce had been extended at Pakistan's request pending a proposal from Tehran.
