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US President Donald Trump has said that the Iran war is “not finished yet”, as he asserted that Tehran wants to “make a deal”.
“It’s not finished yet. I’m not saying, it’s sort of finished, but it’s not finished. It’s got to be finished,” Trump said at the FII Summit in Miami, Florida.
The president said, on a separate occasion, that the US still has “another 3,554” targets left to hit in Iran, adding, “That’ll be done pretty quickly.”
Witkoff says Iran meetings to held ’this week'
US special envoy Steve Witkoff said Friday he believes Iran will hold talks with Washington “this week,” as President Donald Trump reiterated his claims that Tehran wants to make a deal.
“We think there will be meetings this week, we’re certainly hopeful for it,” Witkoff told a business forum in Miami, where Trump is due to speak later, when asked about Iran negotiations.
“We have a 15-point plan on the table. We expect the Iranians to respond. It could solve it all,” Witkoff said.
‘No ground troops needed’
Meanwhile, US State Secretary Marco Rubio has said that the country can achieve its goals in Iran “without any ground troops.”
“We’re going to destroy their navy, we are going to destroy their air force, and we are going to significantly destroy their missile launchers so they can never hide behind these things to get a nuclear weapon,” Rubio said.
He added, “We are achieving all of those objectives, we are ahead of schedule on most of them, and we can achieve them without any ground troops, without any.”
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View AllHis comments came as the US deployed 1,000 extra service members in the region. When asked about this development, Rubio said, “Trump “has to be prepared for multiple contingencies.”
Trump has mixed harsh threats against Iran with claims that Tehran is ready to agree a deal and end the war in coming weeks – and he stuck to that stance as he arrived in Miami.
“On Iran, they are being decimated,” Trump told reporters travelling with him.
With inputs from agencies