The US president has been speaking to reporters on board Air Force One.
He repeated some of his statements from earlier, saying direct and indirect negotiations with Iran were going “extremely well” and that the US has achieved “regime change” in Tehran.
Here are some of his comments:
- Trump said “we’ve had very good negotiations today with Iran” and that Tehran was giving the US a “lot of things they should have given a long time ago”. “We’ll see how it works out. But they are very good”.
- He said the US military has destroyed additional targets in Iran today, and that it was a “big day”. “We are negotiating with them directly and indirectly. We have emissaries.”
- He claimed that Iran has agreed to let up to 20 oil tankers pass through the Strait of Hormuz as a “sign of respect” to the US.
- “I could only say that we’re doing extremely well in that negotiation. But you never know where they’re at, because we negotiate with them, and then we always have to bomb them,” he said.
- “I think, we’ll make a deal with them, pretty sure. But it is possible, we won’t.”
- “But we’ve had regime change. You look already, because, one regime was decimated, was destroyed, they’re all dead. The next regime is mostly dead. And the third regime, we’re dealing with different people than anybody’s dealt with before. It’s a whole different group of people. So I would consider that regime change, and frankly, they’ve been very reasonable. So I think we’ve had regime change. We can’t do it much better than that.”
