{"id":3262,"date":"2026-10-25T09:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T04:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3262"},"modified":"2026-10-25T09:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T04:03:47","slug":"trump-says-killing-iranian-leaders-complicates-us-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3262","title":{"rendered":"Trump says killing Iranian leaders complicates US negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>President Donald Trump has said he needs to stop killing Iranian leaders to determine whom the US is negotiating with, while reiterating that Tehran must never be allowed to develop nuclear weapons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gotta stop\u201d killing Iranian leaders, Trump told a campaign rally in Georgia on Saturday, adding that he needed to establish \u201cwho the hell we\u2019re negotiating with\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t have any aeroplanes, no ships, no anything, no leaders. Level one leader is gone, level two leader is gone,\u201d he said, describing what he portrayed as the destruction of Iran\u2019s military capabilities and leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also defended his 2018 withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which was negotiated under former president Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>He described the agreement as a path for Iran to obtain nuclear weapons, saying he had terminated it \u201cjust in time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe obliterated Iran\u2019s nuclear enrichment capacity with Operation Midnight Hammer and Operation Epic Fury,\u201d Trump said, referring to the US military operations in 2025 and from February to May this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe defeated them militarily, financially, and otherwise. We have to make sure that they never, ever have a nuclear weapon,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has said he needs to stop killing Iranian leaders to determine whom the US is negotiating with, while reiterating that Tehran must never be allowed to develop nuclear weapons. \u201cI gotta stop\u201d killing Iranian leaders, Trump told a campaign rally in Georgia on Saturday, adding that he needed to establish \u201cwho the hell we\u2019re negotiating with\u201d. \u201cThey don\u2019t have any aeroplanes, no ships, no anything, no leaders. Level one leader is gone, level two leader is gone,\u201d he said, describing what he portrayed as the destruction of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}