{"id":42265,"date":"2026-03-01T18:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T18:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=42265"},"modified":"2026-03-01T18:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T18:04:26","slug":"iranian-leaders-want-to-talk-trump-tells-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=42265","title":{"rendered":"Iranian leaders want to talk, Trump tells The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Iran&#8217;s new leadership wants to talk to him and that he has agreed, according to an interview with The Atlantic magazine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them. They should have done it sooner. They should have given what was very practical and easy to do sooner. They waited too long,&#8221; Trump said in the interview from his Florida residence.<\/p>\n<p>Trump did not specify who he would be speaking with or say whether it would occur on Sunday or Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said a leadership council composed of himself, the judiciary head and a member of the powerful Guardians Council had temporarily assumed the duties of supreme leader following the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said some of the people who were involved in recent talks with the US are no longer alive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most of those people are gone. Some of the people we were dealing with are gone, because that was a big &#8211; that was a big hit,&#8221; he was quoted as saying in the interview with Atlantic staff writer Michael Scherer. &#8220;They should have done it sooner, Michael. They could have made a deal. They should&#8217;ve done it sooner. They played too cute.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Iran&#8217;s new leadership wants to talk to him and that he has agreed, according to an interview with The Atlantic magazine. &#8220;They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them. They should have done it sooner. They should have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42265","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=42265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}