Trump: Expect further talks with Iran

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Trump: Expect further talks with Iran

Updated September 27, 2026 – 5:48 p.mReading time: 1 min.

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Trump expects further negotiations with Iran. (Source: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP/dpa/dpa-bilder)

The USA and Iran recently met for negotiations for the first time in months. Shortly afterwards, Trump rejected Iran’s proposal on the Strait of Hormuz, but he expects new talks.

US President Donald Trump According to its own information, it expects further negotiations with the company Iran. “They want to make an agreement, but it’s not the agreement I want to make,” the news portal Axios quoted him as saying in a telephone conversation. It is what might have been agreed upon a year ago. Iran had overstepped its bounds, Trump said, referring to Iran’s latest proposal, which the US President had already rejected.

According to Axios, Trump expects the new talks to take place next week. Two regional sources confirmed these plans to the US media. They expected another round of indirect talks between the two from Monday USA and Iran, Axios reported.

First negotiations in a long time in New York

Representatives of the warring parties USA and Iran were on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly a few days ago new York met again for negotiations for the first time in months. According to Trump’s negotiator Steve Witkoff, who took part in the negotiations on behalf of the US side, the round of talks took place through mediators.

Shortly afterwards, a new Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz known, which Trump rejected on Saturday. The US President said the offer was unacceptable. According to US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz, from the US perspective, Iran tied the proposal to too many preconditions, such as the lifting of far-reaching sanctions.