Trump Warns Iran’s Supreme Leader to Be ‘Very Worried’ as Talks Stall
"He should be very worried. Yeah, he should be. As you know, they're negotiating with us," Trump told a news agency in excerpts from an interview scheduled to air later Wednesday.
The remarks come as Trump has ordered a continued military buildup in the region to increase pressure on Iran ahead of the talks. On the subject of Iranian protesters, he said: "We've had their back."
Trump highlighted previous US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, saying, "That country is a mess right now because of us. We went in, we wiped out their nuclear. Peace in the Middle East. If I didn't take out their nuclear, think of it. If we didn't take out that nuclear, we wouldn't have peace in the Middle East, because the Arab countries could have never done that. They were very, very afraid of Iran."
The comments referred to strikes ordered by Trump in June against Iran’s nuclear sites.
Earlier Wednesday, a news outlet reported that the US informed Iran it would not agree to Tehran’s demands to alter the location or format of the talks scheduled for Friday. "We told them it is this or nothing, and they said, 'Ok, then nothing,'" an unnamed senior US official told the news outlet.
Iranian media confirmed that the indirect talks between the US and Iran are expected to take place Friday in Muscat, Oman, focusing on Iran’s nuclear program and sanctions relief.
Previously, Istanbul, Türkiye had been considered as the venue for the negotiations.
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