Trump boasts effectiveness of airstrikes on Iranian sites, says they pushed Tehran to talks
"We just did a really great job. And then, of course, you cap it off with the hit, the perfect hit in Iran, where they were talking awfully badly, you know, death to America, death to Israel. They were talking awfully badly," Trump said at a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, reports Iran International.
"They're not talking badly anymore, to be honest with you. And we might even meet with them and see," he added.
"They want to meet, they want to meet, and we'll see if we can do something. But they want to meet. I think they want to meet very badly."
Earlier in the day, Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews that "Iran does want to speak. And I think they'd like to speak to me. And it's time that they do.
"We're not looking to hurt them. We're looking to let them be a country again. They got beat up and, you know, they were they were both exhausted, frankly. But Iran really got beat up. And I think they want to meet. I mean, I know they want to meet. And if it's necessary, I'll do it."
Trump made the remarks after his phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, where the two sides discussed Iran and Ukraine, though not much settlement has been made on that issue, Trump said later.
Washington also intensified its economic attack on Iran, with the US Treasury imposing strong sanctions on Thursday against a network that it claimed smuggles Iranian oil disguised as Iraqi oil and, on a Hezbollah -controlled financial institution.
The Treasury Department alleged that a network of companies run by Iraqi-British national Salim Ahmed Said, had been buying and shipping billions of dollars worth of Iranian oil disguised as, or blended with, Iraqi oil since at least 2020, the department said.
They were the first round of sanctions imposed against Iran following the US and Israeli strikes against Iranian military and nuclear facilities, post the ongoing ceasefire.
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