President Donald Trump on Tuesday cut off talks with Iran for the foreseeable future.
On Truth Social, Trump wrote that there “are no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled” with Iran.
A White House official clarified that the president was announcing an end to talks with Iran — a notable development just a day after Jared Kushner publicly referenced ongoing “positive and active conversations” with various parts of the Iranian government in a Fox News interview. (There’s long been pushback from the Iranian side about how active talks are.)
Trump is frustrated that a deal with Iran hasn’t been reached to replace the ceasefire agreement that formally expired Monday, and is instead resorting to pressure to try to extract the US from the conflict.
One US official told Semafor that Trump “wants the blockade” of the Strait of Hormuz “to play out and thinks they can inflict a lot of pain on Iranians and get them to capitulate.”
The White House referred Semafor to Trump’s comments on Monday in the Oval Office.