King Charles does not want Iran to have nuclear weapon: Trump

WASHINGTON, April 28 (Reuters): President Donald Trump said on Tuesday Britain's King Charles did not want Iran to have a nuclear weapon, introducing the fraught subject of the Middle East conflict into comments at a White House state dinner for the visiting royal.

The event was held on the second day of a four-day visit to the United States at a tense time in ties, after Trump has repeatedly criticized British Prime Minister Keir Starmer forwhat Trump calls lack of help in prosecuting the Iran war.

"We're doing a little Middle East work right now and we're doing very well," Trump said at the dinner.

"We have militarily defeated that particular opponent, and we're never going to let that opponent ever - Charles agrees with me even more than I do - we're never going to let that opponent have a nuclear weapon."

In his own comments following Trump, Charles did not speak about Iran or the war. The kingis not a spokesman for the British government.

In a speech to Congress earlier, Charles made no direct mentionof the Iran war, but referred to Trump's criticism of NATO, highlighted the importance of continued US help for Ukraine in its war with Russia, and the dangers of isolationism.

Both Britain and the United States have maintained over the years that Tehran should not develop nuclear weapons.