Trump Agrees to Talk to New Iranian Leadership

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes on Saturday.
Trump Agrees to Talk to New Iranian Leadership
President Donald Trump waves before boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland as he departs for Texas, on Feb. 27, 2026. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
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President Donald Trump has agreed to open discussions with Iran’s newly established leadership following the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The move signals a potential shift in diplomatic dynamics between Washington and Tehran.

“They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them,” Trump told The Atlantic on March 1. “They should have done it sooner. They should have given what was very practical and easy to do sooner. They waited too long.”
Jackson Richman
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Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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