US President Donald Trump waves as he returns to the White House in Washington, DC after playing golf at his Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia on May 31, 2026.
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US President Donald Trump on Monday hit out at critics over a possible no-deal with Iran, saying Tehran “really wants to make a deal” and it would be good for the US and its allies.
His comments come as air strikes between the US and Iran resumed over the weekend, with each side claiming to have hit military targets near the strategically important Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that typically handles about 20% of the world’s global oil traffic.
“Iran really wants to make a deal and it will be good for the United States and those who live with them,” Trump said at a Truth Social. Post.
“But what the Democrats and various seemingly unpatriotic Republicans don’t understand is that it is very hard for me to do my job properly and have a conversation when political manipulators keep ‘chirping’ negatively, at never-before-seen levels, over and over again, that I should move faster, or move slower, or go to war, or not go to war, or whatever,” Trump said.
“Just sit back and relax, everything will work out fine in the end – it always does!”
US Central Command Said It carried out “self-defense strikes” on command and control sites for Iranian radar and drones in Goruk and Qeshm Islands over the weekend, while Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it targeted an air base used in the US attack in retaliation.
an axios report The report published Saturday said Trump had requested several amendments to his envoys’ latest terms of reference with Iranian officials. The report gave information on this issue citing a senior administrative official and another source. CNBC was unable to independently verify the report.
The US president has repeatedly said Washington and Tehran are close to agreeing a deal since a ceasefire took effect in early April, although talks have made little progress in recent weeks.
Guntram Wolff, senior fellow at Bruegel, a Brussels-based economic think tank, said market participants are “very optimistic” about the chances of a diplomatic breakthrough.
“The problem I would say is that we have been promised a good deal for a long time and more than 90 days have passed,” Wolff told CNBC’s “Europe Early Edition” on Monday.
He said, “I understand that it will take time to actually get a concrete agreement but have the fundamentals changed? No, have not. Iran has significant capabilities to cause a lot of damage, it can continue to control the Strait of Hormuz, it still has nuclear-enriched material, so the fundamentals have not changed.”