Trump Eyes Iran Nuclear Deal With Talks Planned This Week (1)

US President Donald Trump said he anticipated talks with Iran over a new nuclear deal in the coming days, building on a flurry of diplomatic activity aimed at averting war between the two countries.

“We have ships heading to Iran right now, big ones, biggest and the best, and we have talks going on with Iran,” Trump told reporters Monday in the Oval Office.

“If we can work something out that’d be great, and if we can’t, probably bad things would happen,” he continued.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian ordered the start of negotiations with Washington “within the framework of the ...