U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media, aft the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a stroke to the powerfulness of national judges by restricting their quality to assistance wide ineligible alleviation successful cases arsenic the justices acted successful a ineligible combat implicit President Donald Trump's bid to bounds birthright citizenship, successful the Press Briefing Room astatine the White House successful Washington D.C., June 27, 2025.
Ken Cedeno | Reuters
The Trump administration in caller days has explored imaginable economical incentives for Iran in instrumentality for the authorities halting uranium enrichment, including releasing billions of dollars successful frozen Iranian assets, according to 3 sources acquainted with the discussions.
The tentative connection would besides let Iran to person assistance from determination countries to alteration Tehran to physique a civilian atomic program, granting Tehran entree to arsenic overmuch arsenic $30 billion.
The connection is 1 of galore ideas nether information by the administration, the sources said. The details of the administration's discussions were first reported by CNN.
The imaginable woody would people a large reversal successful argumentation for President Trump, who pulled the U.S. retired of the Obama administration's atomic woody with Iran successful 2018 arguing successful portion that the sanctions alleviation and unfreezing of Iranian assets had provided a "lifeline of cash" to the Iranian authorities to proceed its malign activities.
Still, it is not instantly wide if the fiscal connection oregon immoderate negotiations betwixt the U.S. and Iran volition determination forward.
In a Truth Social post Friday night, Trump said helium "never heard of this ridiculous idea," adding that it was "just different HOAX enactment retired by the Fake News."
Earlier Friday, Trump threatened to driblet immoderate imaginable sanctions alleviation for Iran aft Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared triumph successful the warfare against Israel and downplayed the value of U.S. attacks connected their atomic sites.
"Why would the alleged 'Supreme Leader,' Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, of the warfare torn Country of Iran, accidental truthful blatantly and foolishly that helium won the War with Israel, erstwhile helium knows his connection is simply a lie?" Trump wrote successful a lengthy station connected Truth Social, adding. "During the past fewer days, I was moving connected the imaginable removal of sanctions, and different things, which would person fixed a overmuch amended accidental to Iran astatine a full, fast, and implicit betterment — The sanctions are BITING! But no, alternatively I get deed with a connection of anger, hatred, and disgust."
In a pre-recorded code connected Iranian authorities TV connected Thursday, Khamenei said: "The Islamic Republic was victorious and, successful retaliation, delivered a manus slap to America's face."
He added: "This enactment tin beryllium repeated successful the future."
But aboriginal connected Friday, Trump insisted the Iranians inactive wanted to conscionable with him to sermon imaginable sanctions relief.
"They bash privation to conscionable me, and we'll bash that quickly. We're going to bash it quickly," Trump told reporters during a White House gathering with the overseas ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Rwanda.
"Don't you deliberation we person sanctions connected determination that they can't bash anything? Wouldn't you deliberation that they privation to conscionable me? I mean, they're not anserine people."
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