US President Donald Trump said ‌on ​Sunday ⁠that ‌Iran's new leadership wants to talk to him ​and that ‌he has agreed. “They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them. They waited too long,” Trump said in an interview with The Atlantic on Sunday. Asked whether the conversation would happen today or tomorrow, Trump said, “I can’t tell you that.” He added that some of the Iranians involved in negotiations in recent weeks were no longer alive. Some of the people we were dealing with are gone, because that was a big—that was a big hit,” he said.

Source: CNN March 01, 2026 22:30 UTC