Trump-Iran latest: US president says ‘very big, powerful ships sailing to Iran’ as he signals talks
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US president Donald Trump said he planned to speak with Iran, even as his administration dispatched another warship to the Middle East.
Trump did not elaborate on the nature or timing of the dialogue, but said, “I am planning on it, yeah,” when asked about possible discussions with Tehran.
He told reporters: “We have a lot of very big, very powerful ships sailing to Iran right now, and it would be great if we didn’t have to use them.”His statement comes as Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said the military would be ready to carry out whatever the president decided.
The American military has moved the USS Abraham Lincoln and several guided-missile destroyers into the Mideast.
Iran’s foreign ministry has condemned the European Union’s decision to list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation on Thursday, denouncing the move as “illegal and unjustified”.
It said that designating a country’s official military institution as a “terrorist” organisation was a dangerous move.
The EU on Thursday announced new sanctions targeting six entities and 15 individuals involved in the country’s bloody crackdown, which included Iran’s interior minister, Eskandar Momeni and prosecutor general Mohammad Movahedi.
