Iran War Day 213: U.S.-Iran Talks Reportedly Continuing as White House Touts Progress of ‘Economic Outcast’
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President Trump said Sunday that he anticipated U.S. and Iranian negotiators would continue talks on the war this week, following his reported rejection of an Iranian proposal over the weekend. “I expect more talks with Iran [this week],” the president told Axios. “They want to make a deal, but it is not the deal that I want to make,” he added. “It is what we would have maybe agreed to a year ago. They overplayed their hand." Trump confirmed to reporters today that U.S. and Iranian representatives spoke Monday through mediators, though no breakthroughs have been reported.
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Separately, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a post on X that economic pressure on Iran was yielding results. “Operation Economic Outcast has caused the rial to hit record lows,” he wrote, alongside a graphic showing the rial’s current exchange rate of 2.44 million to 1 U.S. dollar.
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