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Trump Says He Is Willing to Meet with Iran Without Preconditions

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Trump Says He Is Willing to Meet with Iran Without Preconditions

U.S. President Donald Trump announced Monday he would be willing to meet with Iranian president Hassan Rouhani with “no preconditions,” a major departure from the threats he made toward the Islamic Republic last week.

“I would certainly meet with Iran if they wanted to meet,” Trump said in a press conference alongside Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte.

“They want to meet, I’ll meet, whenever they want,” he added.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry shot down the prospect of a meeting between Trump and Rouhani shortly after Trump’s announcement.

“With current America and these policies, there will definitely not be the possibility of dialogue and engagement, and the United States has shown that it is totally unreliable,” the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said at a news conference in Tehran.

In early May, Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the nuclear agreement between Iran and major world powers and would re-impose sanctions on the regime. He has often struck a hawkish tone on issues involving Iran.

Last week, he tweeted, in all-caps, that Iran would “suffer consequences few throughout history have ever suffered before” if it threatened the United States.

Korean Peninsula: North and South Korea engaged in military talks where they discussed reducing tensions between the two states but did not announce any detailed agreements. At the same time, U.S. intelligence reportedly detected renewed missile activity at a ballistic missiles site in North Korea, raising doubts about the regime’s intentions.

AFRICA

•  After a historic peaceful election, both the sitting Zimbabwean president and his main opposition remain confident in their chances of victory as results are tallied.

•  Tunisia swore in a new interior minister, Hichem Fourati, as the country struggles with the migrant crisis.

•  The main opposition candidate in Mali’s July 29 election said the polls would go to a run-off, while the incumbent president insists that he was victorious.

AMERICAS

•  U.S. President Donald Trump said he has “no problem” with Congress shutting down the government to force funding for his proposed border wall.

•  Teachers’ unions in Argentina started a 48-hour strike to demand improved working conditions and better opportunities to bargain with the government.

•  The United States and Mexico will meet to enter “rapid track” NAFTA negotiations.

ASIA

•  China urged the United States to not allow Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen to transit U.S. territory in her visits to Latin America.

•  The Islamic State claimed responsibility for a blast in the southern Philippines which killed 11.

•  Thailand asked the United Kingdom to extradite deposed former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

EUROPE

•  Tesla is in talks with Germany and the Netherlands over the possibility of building a large factory in one of the two countries.

•  The United States sided with Russia in a World Trade Organization case submitted by Ukraine.

•  The European economic expansion slowed in the second quarter of 2018 amid concerns over global trade disputes.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Gunmen in Afghanistan took dozens of hostages in an attack in the eastern city of Jalalabad.

•  A second officer from Israel’s Druze minority group quit the Israel Defense Forces in protest of Israel’s new nation-state law.

•  UK-based accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers came under fire over a bid for a new deal with Saudi Arabia due to concerns over potential war crimes committed by the Saudis in Yemen.

- By Humza Jilani

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