US President Donald Trump does not want to resume attacks on Iran “at the moment.”an unnamed US official claimed that Trump does not want to resume attacks on Iran at the moment.
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For his part, another official familiar with the negotiations stated that talks between Iran and the United States have made gradual progress in recent weeks.
The official claimed that the Iranian side agreed to discuss the nuclear issue.
He noted that the American side is open to discussing Iran’s request for economic incentives.
Trump also plans to discuss the Iran war with his Chinese and Russian counterparts during trilateral talks to be held in China next week, but he is not expected to address the war in Ukraine, a senior US.
“I think the president intends to talk about Iran during the trilateral meeting he will have with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin,” the official, who asked not to be identified.
He added that Washington has a “completely different track” for negotiations with Kyiv and Moscow, noting that “China is not really part of that track, so it doesn’t seem appropriate to have a discussion about Ukraine there.”
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday that launching further US military operations against Iran was unnecessary because the economic suffering the United States was inflicting on the beleaguered Islamic Republic was already too severe.
Rubio's statement, made during a speech to the Federalists Association, confirmed a statement Trump had made earlier in the week, in which he said the war was "effectively over militarily."
Rubio said: “At the moment, frankly, the economic suffering we are inflicting on that regime is so severe that there is no need for military action, because we have weakened them so much… But I believe that victory lies in ensuring that they never possess a nuclear weapon.”
Rubio also acknowledged the economic hardship Americans have suffered as a result of the war, which has driven up fuel costs and affected almost all sectors of the global economy.
He said it would have been easy for Trump to ignore the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program, avoid an unpopular war, and “leave it to his successor to worry about,” adding that the president decided he “would not leave it unaddressed.”
Rubio added: “But it’s tough. It’s not easy, it’s difficult. And often, as you know, it causes economic and other hardships. So we are aware of that.”
On February 28, the United States and Israel launched a war on Iran that left thousands dead, and Tehran responded with attacks on Israel and American sites in countries in the region.
The United States subsequently launched attacks on sites inside Iran, amid stalled negotiations with Tehran over disputes related to navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most important strategic waterways for energy and commodity supplies.
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