President Donald Trump said he spoke Saturday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Iran as the president weighs up a return to all-out war after Tuesday’s midterm elections.
“Just had a very good talk with him; we had a very good talk,” Trump told reporters Sunday. He confirmed they discussed Iran but gave no further details.
He told a rally in Iowa on Sunday that “the only reason why I’m not finished with Iran is I want to be nice. I want to try and save all those lives if I can.”
“But at some point we’re going to have to give them the hammer,” he added.
His remarks in the lead-up to the midterms have heightened concerns across the Persian Gulf that strikes against Iran will soon resume. Iranian negotiators met with Qatari mediators over the weekend for talks on ending the war.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said Monday that Tehran had put forward a proposal but that the “ball is in America’s court,” the Mehr news agency reported.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday that Iran “remains simultaneously ready for defense and diplomacy, and which path the Americans choose depends on their rationality,” according to Iranian media.
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