Esmaeil Baghaei, the spokesman from Iran’s Foreign Ministry, told a press conference on Monday that there have been no direct talks with Washington, but there have been some exchanges through mediators who expressed the Trump administration’s desire to end the war.
President Donald Trump said the U.S. is negotiating with a more “reasonable regime” in Tehran after killing the previous leadership but warned the country that if the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened “immediately,” Tehran would face new strikes on its civilian infrastructure.
The Group of 7 (G7) issued a statement last week on the Iran War that a Chinese newspaper mocked as a document of “studied emptiness.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered an increase in military strikes across Iran targeting key manufacturing infrastructure.
President Donald Trump continued to tell reporters last week that the U.S. military is “extremely” ahead of schedule in Iran, stating that before the war, it was estimated that it would require four to six weeks to achieve all goals.
Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, told ministers from the Group of 7 (G7) on Friday that he expects the war in Iran to go on for an additional two to four weeks, which is longer than what President Donald Trump has been promising Americans.
The U.S. and Israel have been attacking Iran’s missile launch sites for over a month, but Iran has shown the capacity to continue firing and adjusted its approach by relying on missile launches from deeper inside its own territory, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
President Donald Trump gave a speech on Friday that summed up the president’s flip-flop approach to foreign policy that has been pushed to the limit during his war with Iran.
The Trump administration reportedly submitted a 15-point peace plan to Iran that would end the war, which was rejected by Tehran, which submitted its own demands to end the war that called for several concessions from the U.S., including reparations for the damage caused by the current war.
This past Thursday, President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House that the Iranians better get serious with the negotiations soon, before they run out of time, because when that moment comes, there will be “NO TURNING BACK, and it won’t be pretty!”