Speaking during a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House Tuesday morning, President Trump warned Iran against restarting their nuclear program should the United States back out of the 2013 nuclear agreement.

“It won’t be so easy for them [Iran] to restart it. They’re not going to be restarting anything,” Trump said. “If they restart it, they’re going to have big problems, bigger than they ever had before. And you can mark it down. If they restart their nuclear program they will have bigger problems than they ever had before.”

Trump’s comments come after Iranian leaders threatened to restart the nuclear program “within days” ahead of President Trump’s May deadline on whether to re-certify or scrap the deal. 

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During Macron’s visit, the two leaders will have serious discussions about the future of the Iran nuclear agreement and broader Iranian influence in the Middle East. Macron and other European leaders favor changing the terms, but not scrapping it altogether. President Trump has a different view and seems to have little faith the deal can be saved in the best interest of the United States or the west.