Trump claims Iran lacks leadership and wonders who he should talk to

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that “part of the difficulty in reaching an agreement with Iran is that he does not know who is in charge,” claiming that the country was “left leaderless in the middle of the war.”

“They lost everything, including their leaders, by the way,” Trump told a crowd in Mobile, Alabama, describing what he saw as a “leadership vacuum in Tehran,” claiming that “there is no one willing to step up to run the country.”

"And that's part of our problem," he said. "I don't know who the hell to deal with. There's no one to deal with. No one wants to be president. I wonder: Who am I talking to in Iran? There's no one, no one is there. Knock, knock... Nobody's home."

However, he insisted that the war "will end soon," saying: "But that war will end soon, one way or another."

The comments came a day after Trump defended the length of the war — which has far exceeded the four-to-six week timeline he initially set — and suggested that remaining efforts are aimed at ensuring Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon.

Trump wrote in a post on his “Truth Social” platform: “I have repeatedly stated that it will take between 4 and 6 weeks to eliminate the Iranian nuclear threat, and I accomplished that in one night, but the rest of the time is just ensuring that the situation remains as it is.”