US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he was willing to solve the differences between the US and Iran through diplomatic means but would never allow for the Islamic Republic to acquire nuclear weapons. “My preference is to solve this problem through diplomacy, but one thing is certain: I will never allow the world’s number one sponsor of terror, which they are by far, to have a nuclear weapon,” he said during his State of the Union speech.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app. Trump confirmed that the US and Iran were in talks, yet the latter had not vowed to renounce nuclear armament categorically. “We are in negotiations with them, they want to make a deal but we haven’t heard those secret words: ‘We will never have a nuclear weapon,’” he added. During his first tenure from 2017 to 2020, Trump had revoked a nuclear agreement between the US and Iran initiated by his predecessor Barack Obama and reimposed sanctions on the country.