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President Donald Trump stated Saturday he believes Iran is negotiating “significantly” with the U.S., stressing that he hopes an “acceptable” deal might be brokered.
The president’s feedback had been made as he reportedly weighs choices on a possible military strike on Iran amid widespread protests and a violent crackdown within the nation.
When requested by a reporter aboard Air Pressure One whether or not he had selected a strike in opposition to Iran, Trump responded, “I actually cannot inform you that.”
“However we do have very big, powerful ships heading in that course,” he added. “I hope they negotiate one thing that is acceptable.”
IRAN WILL RETALIATE ‘WITH EVERYTHING WE HAVE’ IF US ATTACKS, SENIOR DIPLOMAT WARNS
President Donald Trump walks to Marine One for departure from the South Garden of the White Home, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photograph/Alex Brandon)
The president then sidestepped a query about whether or not Tehran could be emboldened if the U.S. opted to not launch strikes on Iran, saying, “Some individuals suppose that. Some individuals don’t.”
“You possibly can make a negotiated deal that may be passable with no nuclear weapons,” Trump stated. “They need to do this, however I do not know that they are going to. However they’re speaking to us. Severely speaking to us.”
Trump has stated the U.S. will not share military plans with Gulf allies whereas negotiating with Iran, whilst U.S. naval forces surge into the area.
TRUMP SAYS IRAN CALLED ‘NUMEROUS’ TIMES TO MAKE DEAL AS CARRIER ENTERS MIDDLE EAST WATERS
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media aboard Air Pressure One as he travels from Washington, DC to West Palm Seashore, Florida, on Jan. 31, 2026. (SAUL LOEB / AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Talking with Fox Information Channel senior White Home correspondent Jacqui Heinrich on Saturday, Trump stated, “We are able to’t inform them the plan. If I instructed them the plan, it will be nearly as dangerous as telling you the plan — it could possibly be worse, really.”
“However, look, the plan is that [Iran is] speaking to us, and we’ll see if we are able to do one thing,” Trump continued. “In any other case, we’ll see what occurs. … We’ve an enormous fleet heading on the market, larger than we had — and nonetheless have, really — in Venezuela.”
On Sunday, the speaker of Iran’s parliament stated the Islamic Republic now considers all European Union militaries to be terrorist teams after the bloc declared the nation’s paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terror group over its crackdown on nationwide protests.
Iran once more invoked a 2019 regulation to declare different nations’ militaries terrorist teams following the United States’ designation of the Guard as a terror group that 12 months.
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President Donald Trump leaves after a signing ceremony of his Board of Peace initiative on the Annual Assembly of the World Financial Discussion board in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photograph/Markus Schreiber)
The announcement by Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, a former Revolutionary Guard commander, comes because the Islamic Republic additionally deliberate live-fire navy drills for Sunday and Monday within the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the slim mouth of the Persian Gulf by which roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil commerce passes.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
