Trump reiterates his positive portrayal of Iran talks

President Donald Trump said talks with Tehran seemed “to be working out quite well,” reiterating his positive portrayal of the negotiations on the Iran war without elaborating on the specifics of the discussions.

“I hear they are doing very well,” Trump said in an interview on the “FOX5 1-ON-1” show with FOX5 Las Vegas journalist Tom Durian. The interview was published on Wednesday evening.

Even as the Iran war has entered its sixth month and the two sides have so far failed to reach a permanent end to the conflict, Trump has repeatedly attempted to portray the talks positively.

Trump has said a deal on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a key route for energy supplies that Iran blocked after the war began, is imminent.

“I am not looking to kill people and totally obliterate everything, and that’s where we were headed. And they wanted to negotiate and we’re doing that, and it seems to be working out quite well,” Trump said in the interview.

During an event in Las Vegas, Trump reiterated a similar position.

“I’d rather make a deal because I don’t want to kill people. I do not want to kill people, but at some point we’re gonna, we had. We were. We were set for the biggest attack of any attack, and we’ve hit them very hard for the last few months,” Trump said.

“But we were we were all set for the biggest attack since World War II, and they called me, and they said, ‘Please don’t do it, let’s talks.’”

The war began on February 28 when the US and Israel attacked Iran. Tehran responded with strikes on Israel and Gulf states with US bases.

US-Israeli strikes on Iran and Israeli attacks on Lebanon have since killed thousands and displaced millions.