Trump says Iran has requested meeting with US

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US President Donald Trump has praised his Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, as Iran’s military is “pretty much destroyed” and that Iran wants to come to the table.

“We’re meeting and we’ll see what happens,” he tells reporters on Air Force One. “There’s a chance we could make a deal, but without what we did, they wouldn’t even be talking to us.”

Trump claims that Tehran requested a meeting with Washington through its “surrogates and directly”.

Asked if he is running out of patience with Iran, he replies, “I have plenty of time.”

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