Iran, US Peace Talks Still Stuck In Mud, Trump Says

President Donald Trump admitted during a Friday press gaggle that negotiations with Iran were not going well.

Trump cancelled a planned April 25 trip for Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, saying the trip would not be worth the effort. Trump was asked about the progress of negotiations during a question-and-answer session with reporters as he was walking to Marine One.

“Now we’ve been dealing with Iran. They want to make a deal, they’re not there, they’re not,” Trump said. “They’re, they’re sort of, they, they get close and then a new group of people come in. They don’t know who their leaders are. They have no idea who their leaders are, but they’re very confused and that’s because of the success we’ve had militarily.”

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“Right now, we have negotiations going on. They’re not getting there. They are very disjointed. They’re extremely disjointed,” Trump added later. “They’re not able to get along with each other as leaders, they don’t know who the leader is. Their military’s been defeated. If we left right now it would take them 20 years to build back that country. But we’re not satisfied at this moment.”

Later in the gaggle, a reporter asked Trump what he meant when he said he was “not satisfied.”

“They’re asking for things that I can’t agree to.”

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