US President Donald Trump told reporters that United States officials talked with mediators trying to end Washington’s war with Iran, adding the US will win the Iran war “very soon”.
“We’re going to win, as far as I’m concerned, it’s going to be one way or the other,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “It’s going to go pretty quickly.”
Trump also said that fuel prices will come tumbling down after the US wins the war.
Qatari mediators are likely to hold separate talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi in New York and with the US side today, an official briefed on the negotiations told Reuters, in a fresh push to end the war.
Araqchi remains in New York after attending the UN General Assembly. It was not immediately clear who would represent the US side in the talks with mediators.
The two sides will ‘examine the latest proposals and views regarding the current situation’, ISNA added.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei told state media later yesterday that Araqchi’s stay in New York had not been extended and that the foreign minister would return to Tehran according to his original schedule.
Baghaei made no comment on the talks with mediators.
Iran’s seven-day plan envisages an end to all hostilities in Iran and Lebanon, the unfreezing of billions of dollars’ worth of Iranian assets, an end to sanctions on Iranian oil and the lifting of the US blockade on Iranian ports.
Tehran would then allow the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and the two sides would also resume talks on Iran’s nuclear programme.
Meanwhile, Trump’s administration is considering a limited waiver to its Iran sanctions programme to allow for flights carrying Shi’ite Muslim religious pilgrims between Iran and Iraq, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said.
The source, who is involved in the deliberations, said the US Treasury Department waiver would allow Iraqi Airways to fly to and from the Shi’ite holy city of Najaf for one month, with a more permanent waiver then potentially coming into place.
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