WASHINGTON -- US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States has no interest in holding talks with Iran unless Tehran is prepared to engage in what he called "meaningful" negotiations, warning that US forces would strike Iran's Pickaxe Mountain nuclear facility "pretty soon."
Iran "wants to meet desperately" to end the war because it is "getting decimated," Trump claimed while speaking to reporters at the White House.
The United States is not interested "until they're ready to meet in a meaningful way," he asserted.
The latest comments came amid uncertainty over whether Washington and Tehran would resume diplomatic contacts following their recent military confrontation.
Meanwhile, Trump reiterated that the US military would strike Pickaxe Mountain in central Iran "pretty soon." He was referring to a fortified underground facility that Tehran declared to the International Atomic Energy Agency in 2020 as the future site of an advanced centrifuge assembly plant.
