Trump says new round of Iran talks will begin Monday

The US president says Gulf allies and Tehran urged him to hold planned strikes.

United States President Donald Trump has said that negotiations with Tehran are acceptable to statesman connected Monday aft helium decided to clasp disconnected connected caller strikes connected Iran successful pursuit of a deal.

Trump said connected Sunday that a program was successful spot for the US to motorboat “the biggest onslaught since World War II” against Iran but that helium halted it to springiness diplomacy a chance.

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“Obviously, they don’t privation to beryllium attacked. They knew the grade of the onslaught due to the fact that they saw it forming,” Trump told reporters connected committee Air Force One connected Sunday.

“Now what we’re doing is talking to them successful the signifier of a negotiation. It begins time afternoon.”

He gave nary details astir the venue oregon participants successful the talks.

Trump pulled backmost from threats of an onslaught connected Saturday aft saying the “perimeter” of a woody was successful place.

In his latest comments, Trump said Iran and US partners Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar had urged him to clasp disconnected connected the strikes.

“When the allies asked to telephone it off, you’ve got to benignant of say, ‘Well, let’s see.’ And the crushed they inquire is they deliberation there’s a deal,” helium said.

“There’s a woody connected [the Strait of] Hormuz, and past determination volition beryllium a woody connected the nuclear, oregon you mightiness telephone it the denuclearisation of Iran.”

He said Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had besides urged against the strikes, informing of imaginable unintended consequences.

“I mean, volition they beryllium flooded with radical pouring into their state and disaster? A batch of atrocious things tin happen,” Trump said.

Trump’s announcement came hours aft Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi held a 2nd telephone telephone with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, joined by Pakistani Army Commander Asim Munir, to sermon caller diplomatic efforts.

The officials exchanged views connected the existent concern and connected “initiatives aimed astatine maintaining and strengthening information and stability” successful West Asia, Araghchi said successful a Telegram post. They besides stressed the request to usage determination practice and governmental solutions, helium added.

Earlier connected Sunday, Iran’s authoritative quality bureau IRNA reported that negotiations betwixt Tehran and Oman implicit the Strait of Hormuz were successful their last stages, citing Araghchi.

Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said the negotiations focused connected agreeing to a caller way done the strait, adding that this had “no nexus to the Strait of Hormuz being opened oregon closed. That is simply a abstracted discussion”.

The warfare began connected February 28, erstwhile the US and Israel launched astonishment strikes against Iran, though months of on-and-off diplomacy person led to periods of comparative calm.

A erstwhile ceasefire deal, which included the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, a captious conduit for planetary vigor supplies, fell through. Iran has since tightened its power implicit the waterway arsenic the 2 countries resumed attacks against each different successful caller weeks.