US President Donald Trump has said he would be “honored” to meet Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, the newly-elected Leader of the Islamic Revolution, if a deal is reached to end the war between the two countries.
“I’d be honored to meet him,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday, adding, “If we make a deal, it’s possible that I would meet… I’d be okay with that.”
The remarks come weeks after Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei was elected Leader of the Islamic Revolution by Iran’s Assembly of Experts, following the martyrdom of his father, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, in a cowardly US-Israeli strike on his residence in Tehran on February 28.
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Trump also admitted that he had considered but rejected a risky covert operation to seize Iran’s highly enriched uranium, fearing it would turn into a major failure similar to the 1980 Jimmy Carter mission.
This statement comes after the US suffered a humiliating strategic defeat in Isfahan in early April, where Iranian forces foiled an American attempt to attack a nuclear facility, resulting in the loss of several US aircraft and the failure of the entire mission.
Iran has repeatedly stressed that any agreement must fully respect its national interests, including the complete lifting of the illegal US naval blockade on Iranian vessels and ports, which Tehran considers a clear violation of the ceasefire.
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