US President Donald Trump has said that the United States was in discussions with Iran as the war entered its third week, but that Tehran was not ready for a deal to end it.
“Yes, we’re talking to them,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, without detailing the nature of such talks, when asked if there was any diplomacy underway to end a conflict that has spread across the Middle East and roiled global markets.
“But I don’t think they’re ready. But they are getting pretty close,” Trump said.
However, Iran’s foreign minister had denied earlier that any talks with the United States were taking place.
President Trump said he was not sure he wanted to make a deal to end the war “because first of all, nobody even knows who you’re dealing with, because most of their leadership has been killed.”
In response to Trump’s position, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi declared that Iran had no interest in negotiations with the United States.
“We are stable and strong enough. We are only defending our people,” Araghchi told CBS’s “Face The Nation,” in an interview aired Sunday.
“We don’t see any reason why we should talk with Americans, because we were talking with them when they decided to attack us,” he said. “There is no good experience talking with Americans.”
This comes just days after Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian issued three conditions that Iran requires to end the ongoing war with the US and Israel.
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