‘Things are going very well’ on Iran – Trump

2026-03-23 - 15:04

US President Donald Trump told AFP on Monday that “things are going very well” regarding Iran, shortly after announcing talks with Tehran and a five-day pause on targeting the Islamic republic’s power plants. Trump’s abrupt shift on Iran came hours before the expiration of a two-day ultimatum under which he threatened to attack Iranian power plants if Tehran did not reopen the strategic Strait of Hormuz. “Things are going very well,” Trump said in brief comments by telephone to AFP when asked about Iran, following his earlier Truth Social post on the negotiations that immediately sent oil prices tumbling. In his post, Trump made the surprise announcement, backed by little detail, that diplomacy was underway. This came after he earlier shunned talks with Tehran in the fourth week of the joint US-Israeli military campaign. Trump said in