President Donald Trump affirmed that the new Iranian leadership wants to talk with him and that he agreed to do so, although he did not specify with whom or when that conversation would take place. “They should have done it sooner,” he added, maintaining that Tehran “waited too long” to negotiate.
US President Donald Trump declared that the country’s Army is successful in its attacks against Iran, and said that almost 50 members of that nation’s political-military leadership have died.
In a conversation with the presenter of Fox News Jacqui Heinrich, the president maintained that the United States knows how many objectives remain. «No one can believe the success we are having, 48 leaders have fallen at once. And it is moving rapidly,” Trump said.
Commenting on concerns about a possible spike in oil prices due to the suspension of traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, the American leader said: “I’m not worried at all. I only do the right thing. In the end, things turn out well.
In a later interview with magazine Atlantic, The president insisted on the magnitude of the impact. “Most of those people are no longer here. Some of the people we were dealing with are no longer here,” he said, alluding to previous contacts between Washington and Iranian authorities.
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Trump also stated that the new Iranian leadership wants to talk with him and that he agreed to do so, although he did not specify with whom or when that conversation would take place. “They should have done it sooner,” he added, maintaining that Tehran “waited too long” to negotiate.
The statements come in the midst of a regional escalation, following US and Israeli bombings and subsequent Iranian reprisals against military bases in the Middle East. Until now there has been no independent confirmation of the figure of 48 dead leaders mentioned by the US president.
Among the dead are Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Iranian Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh and Revolutionary Guard commander Mohamed Pakpur. The death of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2005-2013) has also been reported along with three members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from his former security team.
With information from France 24
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