Trump Iran Deal Today: Are the US-Iran Talks Over Now?

President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday 12 November: “We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed.” He added: “We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!” In the same post he said he had asked Vice President JD Vance, who led the American side of the talks, to turn to corruption in Democratic-run states.

So is the Trump Iran deal dead today? The post did not say the mediated talks were over, and the White House has not said what the instruction means for Vance’s Iran role. Tehran said the same day that it is still waiting for Washington’s answer to its seven conditions. The dated record of the US-Iran talks is on the Iran US talks tracker.

President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran, speaking on the sidelines of the COP31 climate summit in Antalya the same day, said: “The United States sought to bring our country and our people to their knees, but gradually, they themselves are being brought to their knees.”

• Trump said the United States no longer needs an agreement with Iran, three days after he told reporters that Iranians “are talking to us, and they’re talking very politely.”
• He told Vance to give his “complete and total attention” to corruption and crime in Democratic-run cities and states. Vance had written on 4 November that “the reason we lost is the war.”
• Pezeshkian said Washington is the side being brought to its knees, and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Türkiye urged both to reach the negotiating table “without further delay.”
• In Israel, Defence Minister Israel Katz said he, Benjamin Netanyahu and the army chief “see eye to eye on the Iranian issue in all its aspects.”

The post went up at about 13:47 UTC on Thursday. After the lines on Iran, Trump wrote: “I have asked Vice President Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime” which he said was “taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S.” He named Minnesota, California and Illinois, and ended the passage: “CORRUPTION is in the Democrat Leadership’s blood!”

Vance led the American delegation at the Islamabad talks in April. Reports on 11 November, which Iran’s foreign minister called baseless, said he was weighing a face-to-face meeting in Doha with Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.

The post reverses the tone of the week. On Monday 9 November, after meeting Qatar’s prime minister, Trump said: “We’re just keeping it the status quo.” On Wednesday at Arlington National Cemetery he said: “We want to make sure we have a total victory, not a 93% victory.” That sequence is set out in Trump Says Iran War Is “Effectively Over” After Qatar Talks.

Pezeshkian told Iran’s state broadcaster that he had held “very good discussions” with the leaders he met in Antalya. He said Washington’s effort to isolate Iran had failed. A day earlier he had asked the summit to document the environmental damage of American and Israeli strikes and to arrange compensation.

Hossein Taeb, the head of the Basij force, said on Thursday morning that “the main issue is the fulfillment of the conditions set by the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Only then, he said, would Tehran decide how and on what to negotiate.

Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei warned other governments the same day: “Any state that may participate in such unlawful aggressions, in whatever form, shall bear full responsibility.” Rezaei said the Revolutionary Guards’ aerospace force was ready for “new surprises on the battlefield.”

Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who heads Iran’s negotiating team, had said on Wednesday that “the ball is now in the Americans’ court.” His interview is covered in Ghalibaf Tells Washington the Ball Is in Its Court.

Erdoğan met Pezeshkian in Antalya on Thursday. His office said he stressed “the importance of getting to the negotiating table without further delay.” It quoted him as saying: “Common ground for agreement must be strengthened and diplomacy given a chance.”

Katz spoke after a meeting in his office with Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, the chief of staff. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, I and the IDF chief of staff see eye to eye on the Iranian issue in all its aspects,” his office quoted him as saying. He said decisions in the transition are taken “responsibly and in full cooperation between the political and military leadership.”

Israel voted on 27 October, and Gadi Eisenkot received the mandate to form a government on 8 November. In a letter to Netanyahu on Wednesday he warned against “dangerous moves that can wait until a new government, enjoying the confidence of the Knesset, is sworn in.” The two men held a two-hour security briefing on Thursday. Netanyahu had told the Knesset on Tuesday: “Soon, we will face international pressure to accept a nuclear-armed Iran.” The background is in Will Israel Strike Iran Again?

Vance’s role. The White House has not said whether he keeps the Iran file, and Trump did not announce an end to the mediated talks.

Qatar. Doha carried Iran’s seven conditions to Washington. A Qatari visit to Tehran or a public American reply would show the channel is alive.

Sunday 15 November. Netanyahu’s office said the security cabinet will meet that day, its first session in more than a month.

The strait. Iran claimed four tankers hit on Thursday. A confirmed strike on a ship under American escort would test the sentence “we’ve got their Strait.”

The assets. Any Treasury move on Iranian funds abroad would give the phrase “their money” a meaning it does not have yet.