President Donald Trump said Sunday that Iran has agreed to “the majority” of a list of 15 demands that the United States sent through Pakistan to end the war.
Asked whether Iran had complied with these points, the president told reporters on the Air Force plane: “They gave us most of the points. Why didn’t they respond?”
“They agree with our plan. We asked for 15 things, and in most cases we’re going to ask for a few more,” Trump continued.
The Iranian government did not immediately accept the 15-point plan last week. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi previously acknowledged that the messages were exchanged through an intermediary, but expressed skepticism about the US government’s position.
Trump also said Iran had provided U.S. crude oil to be shipped tomorrow to “prove that we’re serious.” When President Trump spoke last week about Iran’s “gift” to the United States, he said it was “a lot of oil, enough to fill 10 ships.”
“And today they gave us another gift. They gave us 20 ships worth of oil. The shipments start tomorrow,” he said.
President Trump continued, “We had a very good meeting, both directly and indirectly, and I think we got a lot of very important points.”
President Trump also claimed that “regime change” occurred in Iran during the war.
“There has already been a change of government, because one regime has been destroyed, destroyed, and they all died,” the president told reporters.
“The next government is pretty much dead, and in the third one, we’re dealing with different people than we’ve ever dealt with before. It’s a completely different group of people. So I would consider a change of government. Frankly, they were very reasonable,” he continued.
Background: As CNN previously reported, the 15-point plan is believed to include a commitment to ban Iran’s nuclear weapons, hand over highly enriched uranium, limit Tehran’s defense capabilities, end regional proxies and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
President Trump previously told CNN’s Caitlan Collins that Iran is committed not to have nuclear weapons, something Tehran has said publicly in the past.
Mojtaba Khamenei, son of former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, was elevated to the position held by his father after Khamenei was killed in a US and Israeli airstrike. Senior Iranian officials were also killed in the strikes, including one of the country’s most powerful decision-makers, Ali Larijani.
