US President Donald Trump said he believed that Iran was willing to engage in direct interviews about his nuclear program, the day after Tehran indicated that he would be willing to negotiate through intermediaries.
“Forget letters, I think they want to have direct conversations,” Trump told reporters on board Air Force One on Thursday.
Trump said his preference was for an interview with Iran, and believed that it could help alleviate the trade.
“I think it’s going faster and you can understand the other side much better than you go through a mediator,” Trump said. “They wanted to use intermediaries. I don’t think it’s necessarily true. I think they’re worried. I think they feel vulnerable and don’t want them to feel that way.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that Iran is ready for “real negotiations, from equality and indirect” on a telephone call with the Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldakamp on Wednesday, according to the post of official telegram account of the Ministry.
Iranian President Masoud Pezshkian said last week that the highest leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected the prospect of direct conversations with Trump’s administration under his military threats.
In 2018, Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from a global agreement that limited Iranian nuclear activities in exchange for sanction relief. Since returning to the office, it has re -introduced its so -called “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran, escalated sanctions and warned of a possible military action if the efforts to collapse the new collapse agreement
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