Trump states that the United States does not need agreement with Tehran

O President Donald Trump said today that the US does not need to reach an agreement with Iran, contrary to the expectations of a possible resumption of direct negotiations between Washington and Tehran.

“We don’t need an agreement with Iran,” Trump wrote on the Truth Social platform, adding that “these times are long gone.”.

In the same message, the President said he instructed Vice President JD Vance to focus his efforts on “massive corruption and crime” in the states and cities governed by the Democratic Party.

The statements contradict a report from The Wall Street Journal that Vance would be considering conducting direct negotiations with Iranian authorities.

On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that Washington was still available to negotiate the end of the war, but accused Tehran of presenting “absurd” conditions and of not participating seriously in the talks.

Rubio also considered that the economic pressure exerted by the United States on Iran was devastating enough to make a major new military operation unnecessary at that time.

On Monday, Trump had expressed optimism about the possibility of a diplomatic understanding, after a meeting with Qatar's Prime Minister, a country that has played a mediation role in the conflict that began with the US and Israeli attacks against Iran at the end of February.

Indirect contacts between Washington and Tehran were recently resumed through mediators, at a time when Iran proposed to reopen the Strait of Ormuz by lifting the US naval blockade, restoring oil trade and a ceasefire on all fronts.