US President Donald Trump said that regime change is underway in Iran, reported Agence France-Presse and “Jerusalem Post“, quoted by BTA.
At a briefing for journalists in Florida, before departing from there for Memphis, Trump explained: “There is automatic regime change, because all the representatives of the regime have been killed“. The president was referring to the fact that the Iranian spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as a number of senior politicians and military personnel, were killed during the US-Israeli strikes.
Trump also repeated what he had already announced on his social network “Truth Social“, that the US was negotiating with people in Iran whom he personally found to be “very reasonable and very solid“. “These people are very respected and maybe one of them will be the one that we are looking for“, Trump said. He said that the new Iranian Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei was “not available“ and was not participating in this dialogue.
Trump said that if negotiations with this group of leaders, whom he did not identify, failed, he would continue to bomb Iran with ease. Earlier today, Iran denied holding talks with the United States.
Iran denied today claims by US President Donald Trump that the two countries had "productive" talks to end the war in the Middle East, DPA reported, BTA reports.
Tehran has no contact with Trump, not even through intermediaries, reported Iranian state agencies Fars and Tasnim, which are close to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Just minutes before this information, Trump announced on his social network "Truth Social" that he was postponing military strikes on Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure by five days after "productive talks" with Iran, DPA noted, adding that the US head of state thus extended the term of his previous ultimatum.
Trump threatened on Saturday to attack Iranian power plants if Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz was not lifted within 48 hours.
In response to this statement, Tehran threatened to completely close the strait and said it would retaliate against energy facilities and seawater desalination systems in Gulf countries that maintain relations with the US if Iranian energy infrastructure was attacked.
"The US and Iran have had very good and productive talks over the past two days regarding a final and comprehensive resolution to our military actions in the Middle East," Trump wrote on "Truth Social" today.
Iran's Fars news agency quoted an anonymous source in Iran's state leadership as saying that Trump backed down after Tehran threatened to attack all power plants in West Asia.
Tasnim reported that Trump was advised "by pressure from financial markets" and added that Iran would continue to defend itself "as long as the necessary deterrence is in place."