President Donald Trump sounded optimistic about the progress of peace talks with Iran and said negotiations are continuing as a fragile ceasefire held, but Iranian media said on Saturday that the key Strait of Hormuz was closed to shipping traffic again after the U.S. failed to meet its obligations.
“We had some pretty good news 20 minutes ago, but it seems to be going very well in the Middle East with Iran,” Trump told reporters traveling to Washington on Air Force One, according to MS Now. “We’ll know over a little period of time. We’re negotiating over the weekend.”
A major sticking point in the negotiations has been the issue of recovering material from Iran’s nuclear program. Trump said the U.S. will “go in with Iran and we will take it together, and we will bring it back, 100% of it back to the United States”.
“We’ll take it after the agreement is signed,” he said.
Peace talks in the Pakistani capital Islamabad between a U.S. delegation led by Vice President JD Vance and Iranian negotiators headed by parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf failed to reach an agreement last weekend.
