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“Based on the nature and tone of these in-depth, detailed and constructive talks that will continue throughout the week, I have instructed the Department of Defense to postpone any military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for five days,” Trump wrote, without specifying with whom exactly the talks were being held, bbc.com wrote.
Later on Monday, Trump said in a speech in Memphis that Iran was getting another chance at peace. “We hope he takes it. But either way, America and the world will be much safer,” the US president added.
On Sunday, he threatened to strike Iranian power plants if Iran did not unblock the Strait of Hormuz. In response, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened to close the strait completely until the destroyed power plants are rebuilt.
Trump has not publicly said who from the U.S. is negotiating with Iran, but several U.S. publications, citing their sources and in one case a phone conversation with Trump himself, reported that it is the president’s special envoy Steve Whitkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of the Iranian parliament and former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps air force, said via social network X that there are no talks with the U.S. and that Trump is launching “fake news” in an attempt to manipulate oil prices.
Prior to that, the Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement of the same content.
At the same time, a senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official said in an exclusive commentary to CBS News that Tehran “has received proposals from the U.S. through mediators and is currently studying them.” As CBS News explains, the message received from Washington “could be a precursor to negotiations between the two warring countries.”
Against this backdrop, British politician George Galloway said in a post on X that US President Donald Trump had suffered a nervous breakdown amid the conflict with Iran.
“Trump is having a nervous breakdown,” he wrote.
