Trump says he won’t send officials to Pakistan for negotiations

President Trump connected Sunday said U.S. officials volition not beryllium traveling to Pakistan for bid negotiations regarding the Iran war. 

“We person each the cards. If they privation to talk, they tin travel to us, oregon they tin telephone us. You know, determination is simply a telephone,” Trump said during an quality wherever helium called successful to Fox News’s “The Sunday Briefing.”

“We person bully unafraid lines, though I’m not definite immoderate telephone enactment is secure, frankly, but we person unafraid lines, and if they want, we tin talk, but we’re not sending radical to question 18 hours to meet,” helium added.

The president made akin comments connected Saturday, erstwhile helium called disconnected talks acceptable to instrumentality spot successful Islamabad, Pakistan.

“I conscionable cancelled the travel of my representatives going is Islamabad, Pakistan, to conscionable with the Iranians,” Trump wrote astatine the time.

“Too overmuch clip wasted connected traveling, excessively overmuch work! Besides which, determination is tremendous infighting and disorder wrong their ‘leadership,’” helium continued. “Nobody knows who is successful charge, including them. Also, we person each the cards, they person none! If they privation to talk, each they person to bash is call!!!” 

His remarks travel Vice President Vance’s cancelled trip to Islamabad past week. Vance was expected to attend talks successful idiosyncratic alongside U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. 

Instead, Trump extended the Iran ceasefire indefinitely until Tehran’s officials presented a connection to extremity the war. 

However, Trump said the U.S. goals for an statement are clear. 

“Very simple. They cannot person a atomic weapon, different there’s nary crushed to meet,” Trump told Fox News’s White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich. 

Trump has struggled to summation full power implicit the Strait of Hormuz, a captious waterway for lipid shipments and an planetary focal constituent for the war. 

Iran has planted mines successful the h2o preventing ships from traveling done safely, portion the U.S. subject has launched a naval blockade to forestall Tehran from selectively approving definite vessels for travel. 

Trump said the blockade would harshly interaction Iran’s system portion acknowledging that their resources are dwindling amid the uncertainty of bid talks. 

“I deliberation the large vantage is that we’ve taken retired their navy successful its entirety, which we’ve taken retired their aerial force. Have nary aerial unit left. They person nary navy left,” the president said. 

“Their leaders are gone. Which is, which is simply a bully thing. They were acold much radicalized than the radical that we’re dealing with now, the radical we’re dealing with now, immoderate of them are precise tenable people, and others are not, and they’re not getting along,” helium added. 

Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is severely wounded and is being isolated to forestall further strikes from claiming his life. 

Still, Iran’s embassy successful South Africa said connected Saturday that Tehran is prepared to motorboat the “largest rocket onslaught successful history” against U.S. and Israeli bases successful West Asia if the 2 countries onslaught again successful the midst of negotiations. 

“Iran has prepared for the ‘largest rocket onslaught successful history’ against Israel and U.S. bases successful West Asia, to beryllium launched instantly upon detecting immoderate signs of an attack,” the embassy posted connected the societal level X.