Trump agrees to speak to Iran’s interim leadership: Report
- On March 1, 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump said he agreed to speak with Iran's new leadership, adding `They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them` in a phone interview with The Atlantic from his Florida residence.
- Following coordinated strikes, the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury and Operation Roaring Lion in a decapitation campaign after months of escalating tensions.
- Asked about timing, Trump said `Most of those people are gone` and told Fox News the strikes killed at least 48 Iranian leaders.
- Iran vowed retaliation as Ali Larijani warned the strikes set the nation ablaze, while the U.S. Army announced three US service members killed and five seriously wounded.
- Iran has named an interim leadership council led by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to serve until a new supreme leader is chosen, while Oman and Indonesia offered mediation as Iran signals openness to serious efforts to stop escalation.
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US, Israel pound targets in Iran as Trump signals openness to talk to new leadership
UPDATE: 1:15 p.m. The U.S. and Israel pounded targets across Iran on Sunday, dropping massive bombs on the country's ballistic missile sites and wiping out warships as part of an intensifying military campaign that followed the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. More than 200 people h...
Iran's ‘new leadership' signals openness to talks as US strikes continue, White House says
A senior White House official says Iran's potential new leadership is open to talks after US-Israeli strikes killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. President Trump says military operations continue.
By MATTHEW LEE and DAVID KLEPPER WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran’s “potential new leadership” has suggested it is open to talks with the United States after U.S. and Israeli forces launched a major attack on Tehran that killed the country’s supreme leader and other top officials, a senior White House official said Sunday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal administration deliberations, said President Donald Trump indica…
In the midst of growing tension between the U.S. and Iran, President Donald Trump opened up the possibility of engaging in dialogue with Iranian authorities, although he did not clarify when the military attacks could end.From his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Miami, the U.S. president declared this Sunday that he is willing to talk to the new Iranian leadership. However, he argued that Tehran took too long to agree to negotiate, so — he said — the a…
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