{"id":33245,"date":"2026-04-29T07:28:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=33245"},"modified":"2026-04-29T07:28:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:28:51","slug":"britains-king-charles-does-not-want-iran-to-have-a-nuclear-weapon-us-president","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/britains-king-charles-does-not-want-iran-to-have-a-nuclear-weapon-us-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s King Charles does not want Iran to have a nuclear weapon: US President\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">United States (US) President Donald Trump said that Britain\u2019s King Charles did not want Iran to have a nuclear weapon, introducing the subject of the Middle East conflict into comments at a White House state dinner for the visiting royal.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The event was held on the second day of a four-day visit to the US at a tense time in ties, after Trump had repeatedly criticised British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for what Trump calls lack of help in prosecuting the Iran war.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">\u201cWe\u2019re doing a little Middle East work right now and we\u2019re doing very well,\u201d Trump said at the dinner.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">\u201cWe have militarily defeated that particular opponent, and we\u2019re never going to let that opponent ever, Charles agrees with me even more than I do\u00a0 we\u2019re never going to let that opponent have a nuclear weapon.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">In his own comments following Trump, Charles did not speak about Iran or the war. He is not a Spokesperson for the British government.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Asked about the state dinner comments, the British Embassy in Washington referred\u00a0<i>Reuters<\/i>\u00a0to Buckingham Palace, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">In a speech to Congress earlier, Charles made no direct mention of the Iran war, but referred to Trump\u2019s criticism of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, highlighted the importance of continued US help for Ukraine in its war with Russia, and the dangers of isolationism.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Both Britain and the US have maintained over the years that Tehran should not develop nuclear weapons.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div>Tehran, which does not have nuclear weapons, 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.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13879,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-33245","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Both Britain and the US have maintained over the years that Tehran should not develop nuclear weapons.","published_date":"","news_description":"Both Britain and the US have maintained over the years that Tehran should not develop nuclear weapons.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33247,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33245\/revisions\/33247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=33245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}