Trump said in a Truth Social post that there had been “great progress” in talks with Tehran but warned that if they failed to produce an agreement, he would order the bombardment of Iranian power plants, oil infrastructure and potentially desalination plants. ADVERTISEMENTDespite Trump’s claim that the US is in talks with “a new, and more reasonable, regime” in Iran, however, there has been little apparent progress in the negotiations. Iran has denied holding substantive talks with the US and has rejected the Trump administration’s conditions as unreasonable. Trump had earlier on Monday suggested to the Financial Times that American troops could seize Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub. White House claimsTrump would be interested in calling on Arab countries to pay for the cost of the Iran war, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Monday.

Source: The Telegraph March 31, 2026 00:56 UTC