United States President Donald Trump on Monday said that Iran wants “to make a deal” and claimed US envoys have been holding talks with a “respected” Iranian leader.
Trump told reporters that the Middle East special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner conducted talks Sunday into the evening.
Trump said talks would continue today.
Trump did not name any official or officials representing Tehran. Trump said the US has not talked to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei.
Trump said if a deal is reached with Iran, the US will move to take Iran’s enriched uranium critical to its disputed nuclear program.
US President Donald Trump statement on Iran
- Iran needs better public relations people
- Iran would like to make a deal, we would like a deal too
- We have not heard from Iran’s supreme leader
- Person we are speaking with is not Iran’s supreme leader
- We will get together with Iran probably by phone
- USD 200 billion military funding would be nice to have
- We want no enrichment, we also want the enriched uranium
- We want to see no nuclear bomb or weapon for Iran
- Israel will be very happy with what we have on Iran
- We just spoke with Israel a little while ago
- Want as much oil in the system as possible
- Think Iran was an imminent threat
- Nobody knows what happened to new Iranian supreme leader
- Iran does have some leaders left
