Donald Trump said he wants to negotiate a nuclear weapons program deal with Iran and sent a letter to its leaders on Thursday saying he hoped they would negotiate.
“I said I hope you’re going to negotiate, because it’s going to be a lot better for Iran,” the US president said in the interview with Fox Business Network in the US, broadcast early on Friday.
“I think they want to get that letter. The other alternative is we have to do something, because you can’t let another nuclear weapon.”
The letter appeared to have been addressed to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for more details on the Trump administration’s actions.
The Russian deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, discussed international efforts to resolve the situation around Iran’s nuclear program with the Iranian ambassador, Kazem Jalali, the Russian foreign ministry said on Friday.
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