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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Trump says Iran leadership agrees to talks after US and Israel strike Tehran

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A person walks through steam from a vent as people protest near the White House against US and Israeli strikes on Iran, on Saturday. Photograph: Allison Robbert/AP

Donald Trump said on Sunday that Iran’s political leadership have agreed to talks, a day after the US and Israel began to target the country’s military and political infrastructure, killing the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several top officials.

“They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them,” Trump told a reporter for the Atlantic magazine on Sunday. “They should have done it sooner. They should have given what was very practical and easy to do sooner. They waited too long.”

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