Top updates: Trump claims war with Iran ‘close to over’, US continues blockade of Iranian ports
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United States President Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday that the war with Iran was “close to over” and that Tehran wanted to make a deal with the US “very badly”.
“I think it’s close to over, yeah,” Trump said in an interview to Fox News. “I view it as very close to over.”
The US and Iran had begun peace talks in Islamabad on April 11, but the negotiations ended the next morning without an agreement to end the war in West Asia.
However, Trump told The New York Post that additional talks with Iran “could be happening over the next two days” in Islamabad.
Here are more top updates from the conflict in West Asia:
- The US president did not say who will represent the country in the possible second round, but said that he would not take part. Pakistan had proposed to host a second round of talks in Islamabad before the two-week ceasefire between Washington and Tehran ends on April 22.
- Trump also told The New York Post that he was not happy with reports claiming that the US had asked Iran to suspend its nuclear enrichment programme for at least 20 years during the talks held in Islamabad. “I’ve been saying they can’t have nuclear weapons, so I don’t like the 20 years,” he was quoted as saying.
- The US military claimed that...