Everything you need to know: Trump comments on Iran, trade and Russia

Investing.com - U.S. President Donald Trump has delivered comments connected a wide scope of topics connected Thursday arsenic portion connected an ongoing circuit of the Gulf region, including a imaginable atomic woody Iran and Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) operations successful India.

Trump has said the U.S. was closing successful connected a atomic woody with Iran, adding that Tehran had "sort of" agreed to the presumption of an agreement.

"We’re successful precise superior negotiations with Iran for semipermanent peace," helium said astatine a concern roundtable lawsuit successful Qatar.

"We’re getting adjacent to possibly doing a woody without having to bash this... determination (are) 2 steps to doing this, determination is simply a very, precise bully measurement and determination is the convulsive step, but I don’t privation to bash it the 2nd way."

U.S. and Iranian negotiators held caller talks to resoluteness disputes implicit Tehran’s atomic programme connected Sunday, with officials saying they program to clasp aboriginal negotiations. Iran has suggested that it is continuing to enrich uranium.

Meanwhile, Trump said that helium has spoken with Apple CEO Tim Cook successful a bid to dissuade him from increasing accumulation successful India.

Trump said helium told Cook that helium did not privation him to beryllium "building successful India", adding that "India tin instrumentality attraction of themselves, they are doing precise well".

Apple, instead, volition beryllium moving to summation its accumulation successful the United States, Trump said.

With regards to India, Trump said the state had agreed to efficaciously driblet each tariffs connected U.S. goods arsenic portion of a imaginable commercialized deal.

Trump had antecedently suggested that a ceasefire woody betwixt India and Pakistan pursuing a bout of caller unit betwixt the 2 was predicated connected a commercialized truce -- a assertion that Indian officials person denied.

New Delhi has besides said it was consenting to slap retaliatory tariffs connected the U.S. successful effect to American duties connected alloy and aluminum.

Separately, Trump said commercialized betwixt the U.S. and China "essentially went acold turkey [...] for a play of a month", arsenic Washington looked to close perceived commercialized imbalances with Beijing.

He praised Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for his enactment successful securing a commercialized truce with China pursuing high-stakes negotiations past weekend. On Monday, the U.S. and China agreed to little tit-for-tat tariffs and temporarily hold their respective levies for 90 days. However, analysts person noted that tariffs stay supra levels astatine the opening of Trump’s 2nd word successful powerfulness earlier this year.

On the struggle betwixt Ukraine and Russia, Trump besides suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not question to talks with Kyiv successful Turkey if helium were not besides successful attendance.

"I didn’t deliberation it was imaginable for Putin to spell [to the negotiations successful Istanbul] if I’m not there," Trump said.

However, Trump indicated that helium would be the discussions "if it is appropriate", adding that the warring betwixt Ukraine and Russia needs to stop. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is among those from the U.S. attending, Trump noted.

Putin’s sanction was not included successful a database of representatives the Kremlin said would nonstop to the face-to-face talks, which volition beryllium the archetypal since soon aft the outbreak of the struggle successful 2022.

It besides remained unclear if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy volition attend, with the person saying earlier this week that helium was not prepared to talk with anyone from the Russian broadside isolated from Putin.

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