Rabat – US President Donald Trump has confirmed that he will engage in discussions with Iran’s recently installed leadership, stating that the country’s officials have expressed a willingness to communicate with his administration.
“They want to talk and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them,” Trump told The Atlantic magazine.
The president also criticized the timing of the overture, saying, “They should have done it sooner. They should have given what was very practical and easy to do sooner. They waited too long.”
Trump did not provide details on when the talks are expected to take place or the topics that would be discussed, leaving the schedule and agenda of the potential dialogue unclear.
This development comes amid ongoing tensions between Washington and Tehran, and any engagement between the two sides is being closely watched by international observers.
Also today, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the country is moving through a constitutional transition after Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in the US-Israel strike on Saturday.
A temporary leadership council, including the president, the judiciary chief, and a Guardian Council jurist, is managing state affairs until a new supreme leader is elected, possibly within “one or two days.”
Araghchi insisted that “everything is in order” under Iran’s legal framework.
