
US President Donald Trump stated on Sunday that he expects negotiations with Iran to resume in the coming week, despite rejecting a seven-day truce proposal from Iranian officials at the UN General Assembly in New York, which included reopening the Strait of Hormuz shipping channel.
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The US and Iran have been in diplomatic tension over nuclear and regional issues, with periodic negotiations and proposals for de-escalation.
US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he expects talks with Iran to resume in the coming week, despite his rejection of a truce proposal put forward by Tehran.
Iranian officials brought with them to the UN General Assembly in New York a plan for a seven-day truce followed by the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz shipping channel.
Trump dismissed the plan and has mused on resuming full-scale air strikes on Iranian targets but he told the news platform Axios that he expects negotiations to resume.
“They want to make a deal but it is not the deal that I want to make,” Trump told Axios. “It is what we would have maybe agreed to a year ago.”
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Negotiations between the US and Iran will resume in the coming week
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