US President Donald Trump says he is open to meeting Iran’s supreme leader or president as the two countries began talks on Iran’s nuclear program.
Following a meeting last week to outline a framework for a potential nuclear deal, which a US official describes as yielding “very good progress,” Trump tells Time magazine, in an April 22 interview published today: “I think we’re going to make a deal with Iran.”
Asked whether he is open to meeting Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei or President Masoud Pezeshkian, Trump replies: “Sure.”
Trump, who in 2018 pulled the US out of a 2015 nuclear agreement between Tehran and world powers, has warned of military action against Iran unless a new deal is swiftly reached to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons.
Since 2019, Iran has breached and far surpassed the 2015 deal’s limits on its uranium enrichment, producing stocks far above what the West says is necessary for a civilian energy program.
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