‘I guess we’re dealing with the right people,’ President Donald Trump said at a Cabinet meeting.
President Donald Trump said on March 26 that Iran had given the United States a “present” in the form of several boats carrying oil.
To show they were serious and reliable, Iran had planned to send over eight large vessels of oil, Trump said. He initially thought nothing of it, but then he saw a news report stating that eight ships were moving through the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump, speaking during a Cabinet meeting, reiterated that his administration is having “very substantial talks” with Tehran to resolve the conflict.
Iranian officials gifted the United States 10 boats of crude oil to show that they were “real and solid” during negotiations, Trump said.
“I guess we’re dealing with the right people,” the president stated. “And actually, they then apologized for something they said, and they said, ‘We’re going to send two more boats,’ and ended up being 10 boats.”
Earlier this week, the president hinted that Tehran was giving the United States a “present” related to oil and gas, “worth a tremendous amount of money.”
These comments come hours after Trump wrote on Truth Social that Iran’s leaders “better get serious, before it is too late.”
“The Iranian negotiators are very different and ’strange,’” he wrote on his social media platform.
“They are ‘begging’ us to make a deal, which they should be doing since they have been militarily obliterated, with zero chance of a comeback, and yet they publicly state that they are only ‘looking at our proposal.’ WRONG!”
Special envoy Steve Witkoff confirmed during the meeting that he delivered a 15‑point proposal aimed at ending the ongoing armed conflict with Iran.
By Andrew Moran
