Trump Defends Deal to End the War With Iran as Details Emerge NYT - Top Stories By: Erica L. Green · Zolan Kanno-Youngs · Farnaz Fassihi and Michael Levenson 17 June 2026 at 22:17 President Trump lashed out at critics who say the agreement achieves less than the one President Barack Obama signed in 2015, and he threatened to bomb Iran again if it violated the deal. © Haiyun Jiang/The New York TimesPresident Trump and other U.S. officials at a news conference amid the Group of 7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, on Wednesday.