As Iran and the U.S. eye talks, a protester asks Trump to "keep his word"

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tuesday that helium had told the country's overseas curate to "pursue just and equitable negotiations" with the United States aft weeks of escalating hostility with the Trump administration. It was the archetypal wide awesome from Iran that it could instrumentality portion successful talks that are expected to instrumentality spot aboriginal this week.

The determination came aft "requests from affable governments successful the portion to respond to the connection by the President of the United States for negotiations," Pezeshkian said successful a societal media post. "I person instructed my Minister of Foreign Affairs, provided that a suitable situation exists — 1 escaped from threats and unreasonable expectations — to prosecute just and equitable negotiations, guided by the principles of dignity, prudence, and expediency."

"I'd similar to spot a woody negotiated," President Trump said Monday. "Right now, we're talking to them, we're talking to Iran, and if we could enactment thing out, that'd beryllium great. And if we can't, astir apt atrocious things would happen."

Mr. Trump has repeatedly threatened Iran with the anticipation of a caller subject attack, arsenic what he's called an "armada" of U.S. warships heads for the Persian Gulf. He initially said the U.S. could onslaught if Iran killed protesters amid its brutal crackdown connected anti-government demonstrations that rocked the state successful aboriginal January. Last week helium wielded the aforesaid threat, but said an onslaught could beryllium launched if Iran refuses to negociate a caller agreement implicit its atomic program.

U.S. elder envoy Steve Witkoff is traveling to the region, and Gulf countries, including Turkey and Qatar, person been moving to put talks for aboriginal this week. The White House has not confirmed that Witkoff volition be negotiations with Iranian officials. Foreign ministers from Qatar, the UAE, Oman, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia person besides been invited to enactment successful talks, if they occur, The Associated Press reported Tuesday, citing an unnamed determination official.

Iranian protester tells CBS News Mr. Trump should "keep his word"

"Our biggest fearfulness is that if they [the Iranian government] enactment successful power, they privation to instrumentality revenge, due to the fact that radical crossed their reddish enactment by going to the street, by shouting 'death to Khamenei and Islamic Republic,'" Zahra, who participated successful the protests arsenic they reached their highest connected Jan. 8 and 9, told CBS News connected Friday.

Her sanction has been changed to support her identity.

She said radical successful Iran would enactment a U.S. involution to topple the authorities led by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

"People without ties to the regime, they privation them gone astatine immoderate expense. They privation Khamenei to beryllium either removed oregon arrested oregon whatever. But they privation the Islamic Regime to beryllium gone," Zahra said. "Every azygous 1 of them, from the alleged hardliners — the ellipse person to Khamenei — to the ones who were known arsenic the reformists … we privation each of them gone, due to the fact that they are a system. They've been moving together, and they're complicit successful this."

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Zahra said during the protests successful Iran, "we saw President Trump's tweets connected outer TV. We work erstwhile helium said: 'Help is connected the way.' People trusted him. People trusted him large time. And radical came to the streets."

She asked Mr. Trump to "keep his word."

"We tried each possibility, and each of that was peaceful," Zahra said. "People were unarmed and they were changeable successful large crowds. So, what I spot is that these radical person done everything they could for a amended future. And present determination is an knowing among them that we can't bash it by our own."

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