“We’re in negotiations right now. They’re doing it, along with Marco and JD; we have a number of people doing it,” the president told reporters in the Oval Office. “The other side, I can tell you, they’d like to make a deal. And who wouldn’t if you were them.”

“Look, their navy is gone. Their air force is gone. Their communications are gone. That’s the biggest problem,” Trump continued. “As opposed to Iran, we’re roaming free. We can do whatever we want, and as you know, today, we were going to have the privilege of shooting down a very big electric generation plant, one of the biggest in the world, and one shot to the right location, ends the plant and it collapses, and we held off, based on the fact that we’re negotiating.”

Vance had been rumored to lead the U.S. delegation in potential face-to-face negotiations with Iranian officials. White House officials declined to comment on those reports.

“JD is involved, and Marco is involved, and Jared Kushner is involved, very smart guy, and Steve Witkoff, smart guy, is involved, and I’m involved. I’m involved,” Trump said when asked about the topic Tuesday. “Why, I’m going to be so big and go ‘I don’t want to talk?’ I’m about the President of the United States … and I’m not going to talk about it?”

Though White House officials have repeatedly stated that “regime change” is not a goal of the war, the president used the term on Tuesday to describe what had happened in Iran as a result of U.S.-Israeli strikes taking out the country’s top leadership.

“You know, this is a change in the regime, because the leaders are all very different than the ones that we started off with that created all those problems,” he stated. “I think we can say this is regime change, right?”

“This war has been won. The only one that likes to keep it going is the fake news,” Trump added.

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