{"id":61875,"date":"2026-03-30T07:15:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/?p=61875"},"modified":"2026-03-30T07:15:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:15:54","slug":"trump-calls-irans-current-leaders-very-reasonable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/2026\/03\/30\/trump-calls-irans-current-leaders-very-reasonable\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls Iran\u2019s current leaders \u2018very reasonable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Reuters<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump said the US and Iran have been meeting \u201cdirectly and indirectly\u201d and that Iran\u2019s new leaders have been \u201cvery reasonable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019ll make a deal with them, I\u2019m pretty sure, but it\u2019s possible we won\u2019t,\u201d Trump told reporters on Sunday evening as he travelled aboard Air Force One to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he thought the US had already accomplished regime change in Tehran after strikes killed the country\u2019s supreme leader and other top officials, but said twice that their replacements seemed \u201creasonable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s parliament speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, earlier accused the US of sending messages about possible negotiations while at the same time planning a ground invasion. Tehran was ready to respond if US soldiers were deployed, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as the Americans seek Iran\u2019s surrender, our response is that we will never accept humiliation,\u201d he said in a message to the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli strikes<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s military said it had launched over 140 air strikes on central and western Iran, including Tehran, over the 24 hours to Sunday evening, hitting ballistic missile launch sites and storage facilities, among other targets.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian state media reported strikes had hit Mehrabad airport and a petrochemical plant in the northern city of Tabriz.<\/p>\n<p>An Iranian missile or missile debris hit a chemical plant in southern Israel near the \u200ccity of Beersheba as Israel fended off multiple salvos from Iran, prompting official warnings to the public to stay away due to \u201chazardous materials\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>More US troops<\/p>\n<p>Several hundred special operations personnel have arrived in the region, the New York Times reported on Sunday, citing two military officials.<\/p>\n<p>That comes on top of thousands of US marines that came on Friday aboard an amphibious assault ship, the first of two contingents, the US military has said.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters has reported that the Pentagon has been considering military options that could include ground forces, although \u2060Trump has not approved any of those plans, according to multiple news outlets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters US President Donald Trump said the US and Iran have been meeting \u201cdirectly and indirectly\u201d and that Iran\u2019s new leaders have been \u201cvery reasonable\u201d. \u201cI think we\u2019ll make a deal with them, I\u2019m pretty sure, but it\u2019s possible we won\u2019t,\u201d Trump told reporters on Sunday evening as he travelled aboard Air Force One to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[530],"class_list":{"0":"post-61875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-story","8":"tag-trump-calls-irans-current-leaders-very-reasonable"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61877,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61875\/revisions\/61877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyspokesman.net\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}