Once Donald Trump announced the ceasefire in the Middle East, it has now emerged that the United States will meet with Iran next week, while for now a tenuous ceasefire remains in place between Israel and Iran.

During a press conference on Wednesday to close the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, the president said that there could be a formal agreement with Iran at some point, but he doesn't believe it's necessary because its nuclear facilities have been exploited to the last corner of the world. “We're going to talk to Iran next week. We might sign an agreement. I don't know,” Trump revealed during his press conference at the close of the NATO summit held this Tuesday and Wednesday in The Hague. The president did not specify where those talks would take place. Previous rounds had taken place in Oman without achieving significant progress: Washington demanded an absolute end to Iran's uranium enrichment; Tehran, which maintains that its activities in that area are not intended to produce weapons, refused to do so. “I don't care if I have an agreement or not,” he said. “The only thing we would ask for is what we asked for before: 'We don't want nuclear weapons.' But we destroyed the nuclear one. In other words, it's destroyed. I said, 'Iran will not have nuclear weapons.' Well, we blew it up. It's in pieces. So I don't feel very confident. If we had a document, that wouldn't be bad.”

The president met with other world leaders on the sidelines of the summit amid cautious optimism about the cease-fire brokered by the Trump administration. The 12-day conflict left 28 dead in Israel and hundreds in Iran.

“It was a 12-day war. And we believe it's over,” Trump said during the news conference. “I don't think they're going to attack each other again, I don't think so.”

“Because I dealt with both of them, and they're both tired, exhausted,” Trump said. They fought very, very hard, very viciously, very violently, and both were happy to be back home and out. And can it start again? I suppose one day, maybe soon.

At the summit, Trump claimed that Iran's uranium enrichment efforts were practically decades behind. U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities were very successful.