Trump ready to meet Iranian leaders "whenever they want"

He is ready to talk to everyone. After meeting Kim Jong-un after an unprecedented verbal escalation with North Korea, Donald Trump says he is now ready to see Iranian leaders "when they want," despite the steadfastness of recent months against Iran.

"I do not know if they are ready," said Monday the President of the United States in response to a question about a possible meeting with his Iranian counterpart Hbadan Rohani. "I imagine that they will want to meet me, I am ready to meet them when they want," he added to the press.

According to him, it is "good for them, good for us, good for the whole world, "especially" if we can find a serious solution, not a waste of paper like the other agreement. "

No precondition

Donald Trump announced in May the withdrawal of the United States United of the international agreement supposed to prevent Iran from acquiring the atomic bomb, which he considers too lax. He reinstated all the sanctions that were lifted after his signature in 2015, with severe backlash for many European companies, ordered to leave Iran on pain of being hit by US punitive measures.

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Donald Trump, on the other hand, badured that he would not impose conditions on a meeting that would be the first between American and Iranian presidents since the 1979 Islamic revolution. 40 years old. But his secretary of state Mike Pompeo then told CNBC that a summit meeting could be held "if the Iranians demonstrate that they are ready for fundamental changes in the way they treat their people, change their malicious behavior. In the Middle East and are open to a nuclear deal "that really prevents proliferation."

The American openness intervenes in any case while the tone had risen in recent days.

President Rohani first warned that a conflict with Iran would be the "mother of all wars."

Tweet in capital letters

"NEVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES WHERE YOU ARE GOING TO SUFFER CONSEQUENCES AS LITTLE HISTORY HAS BEEN KNOWN BEFORE, "Donald Trump told him directly in an uppercase tweet.

" BE CAREFUL! Iran's Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, responded in the same fashion.

The US warning register recalls the one used a year ago against North Korea's nuclear ambitions. , to which Donald Trump promised "fire and anger" and a "total destruction" in case of aggression. In parallel with Washington's campaign of "maximum pressure", a combination of diplomatic isolation and draconian sanctions, invective exchanges with Kim Jong-un had increased steadily while Pyongyang was multiplying ballistic and nuclear tests.