US President Donald Trump has said that talks with Iran are going “very well” and could yield results over the coming weekend.
“I hear the negotiation itself is going very well, actually,” Trump told reporters, adding of a potential deal: “It could happen… over the weekend.”
Trump’s assessment differed sharply from that of Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, who said that lines of communication with the United States were still open, but “no tangible progress” had been made in negotiations to end the Middle East war.
Trump also said he wants to separate the US-Iran talks from those on the war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
“I’d like to separate it, I’d like to have a separate thing, because it is, it is separate,” Trump said.
“We actually spoke with Hezbollah for the first time, ever,” the US president said of efforts to halt the fighting in Lebanon.
“They agreed yesterday they’re not going to shoot, Israel’s not going to shoot, we’re just going to see,” Trump said.
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