US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Washington is engaged in active negotiations with Iran, and claimed Tehran offered a “very big” oil- and gas-related concession.
Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said, “We are in negotiations right now… the other side would like to make a deal,” and said multiple senior officials, including Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, were involved.
In an unusual comment, he described a “present” from Iran: “They did something yesterday that was amazing. They gave us a present… a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was oil and gas related,” without providing details.
Trump asserted the US was “talking to the right people,” while also claiming Iran’s leadership had been significantly weakened. “Their leaders are all gone. Nobody knows who to talk to. But we’re actually dealing with the right people, and they want to make a deal so badly,” he said.
He added that a planned US strike on a major Iranian power facility had been called off because of the talks: “Today we were going to have the privilege of hitting a very big electric generation plant… we held off based on the fact that we are negotiating.”
At the same time, Trump projected US military dominance, saying American forces were operating freely over Tehran and that much of Iran’s air defence and missile capability had been neutralised. He also said Iran had agreed not to pursue nuclear weapons, though there is no independent confirmation of such an understanding.
While Trump’s remarks suggest momentum toward a possible deal, Tehran has not officially confirmed negotiations, and significant questions remain about the scope and credibility of the reported concessions and talks.
