Trump Predicts ‘Deal’ With Iran, Official Says ‘No Prospect Of Negotiations’ With US

U.S. President Donald Trump reacts during a news conference with Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, not pictured, at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, May 27, 2019.  Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg
TOKYO, JAPAN - MAY 27: U.S. President Donald Trump reacts during a news conference with Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, not pictured, at Akasaka Palace on May 27, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Kiyoshi Ota - Poo... TOKYO, JAPAN - MAY 27: U.S. President Donald Trump reacts during a news conference with Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, not pictured, at Akasaka Palace on May 27, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Kiyoshi Ota - Pool/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Despite President Trump’s predictions that he will be able to work out a “deal” to avoid escalating tensions with Iran, the country’s officials see “no prospect” of negotiating with the United States, Reuters reported. 

“We currently see no prospect of negotiations with America,” Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi said at a news conference, according to Reuters. “Iran pays no attention to words; What matters to us is a change of approach and behavior.”

Trump said on Monday that he believes Iran would “like to make a deal, and I think that’s very smart of them, and I think that’s a possibility to happen.”

Tensions between the U.S. and Iran have grown in recent weeks as the country reportedly made threats against U.S. personnel in the Middle East. The U.S. responded by announcing plans to deploy 1,500 troops to the Middle East. Trump has maintained that the U.S. is not interested in a regime change in Iran, but wants to see “no nuclear weapons.”

Upon entering office, one of Trump’s first moves was to pull the U.S. out of the Iran Nuclear Deal, an agreement he has criticized for years.

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  1. Trump said on Monday that he believes Iran would “like to make a deal, and I think that’s very smart of them,…

    …but I really thing North Korea is smarter…

  2. I was thinking that Iran is missing an opportunity here. All they have to do is say Biden is a low IQ individual and they would be able to do anything they want.

  3. Trump at 6 years old.

    You’re fat, ugly, and stupid. Wanna trade your Cheetos for my apple?

  4. Trump today: “You’re fat ugly , and stupid. Can I have your Big Mac? Otherwise terrible things will happen to you. Or, maybe not.”

  5. And the Faux Echo Chamber will repeat it and then say: See Iran doesn’t want to make a deal time for
    war.
    All the time ignoring the reality that we have a deal that was working until Fat Nixon Fucked it up

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