Trump has written to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, trying to jump start direct talks between Tehran and Washington.

So far, Iran has maintained it is willing to engage in indirect talks, but such discussions under the Biden administration have failed to make headway.

On Thursday, Trump said he would prefer to hold “direct talks” with Iran. the US president argued:
“I think it goes faster and you understand the other side a lot better than if you go through intermediaries,”

“Today, America is not only humiliating Iran, but also the world,” Pezeshkian added, in an apparent reference to recent policies adopted by Trump, including imposing tariffs on imported goods.

Meanwhile, Trump is continuing an intense airstrike campaign targeting the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.

The last force in Tehran’s self-described “Axis of Evil Resistance” able to attack Israel after other groups were mauled by Israel during its war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip and with Hezbollah in Lebanon — to No fruition