Donald Trump says that the military operation against Iran is going faster than expected and that he will speak with the regime’s leaders

“They want to talk, and I have agreed to do it, so I will talk to them,” he declared in a telephone interview with the American magazine The Atlantic.

The Republican, who announced the attack on Saturday after considering nuclear negotiations with Tehran failed, affirmed that Iran has taken too long in wanting to reach an agreement: “They should have done it sooner. They should have done sooner what was very easy to do. “They waited too long”said.

Trump did not detail when the new talks would begin and stressed that some of the leaders with whom he had negotiated so far have died.

“Some of the people we were dealing with are gone, because it was a big blow,” Trump said, in apparent reference to the attack that killed Iran’s supreme leader and other senior Revolutionary Guard officials on Saturday.

“They should have done it sooner,” he insisted. “They could have reached an agreement. They should have done it sooner. They wanted to be too clever.”

In a separate interview, Trump said on Sunday that 48 Iranian leaders had already been killed in the offensive against the Islamic republic.

“No one can believe the success we are having, 48 leaders disappeared in one fell swoop. And this is moving quickly.”Trump said, according to an interview cited by Fox News.

At the same time, in dialogue with the American network CNBC, the American president said that the operation, baptized by the Pentagon as ‘Epic Fury’, is going “faster than expected,” the network explained.

Three US soldiers were killed and five others were seriously injured during the operation, according to the Central Command of the US Armed Forces (Centcom).

The joint bombings by Israel and the United States against Iran began on Saturday, when the ayatollah died along with a good part of the Iranian military leadership, and continued this Sunday with several waves of attacks on Tehran.

Iran has promised to avenge Khamenei’s death and, so far, has attacked the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait, among other allies of the United States, and where this country maintains military bases.

The Islamic Republic, which is going through its most complex moment since its founding in 1979, He is also rushing to find a successor to Khamenei and appointed a triumvirate to pilot the transition.

Trump, who is in his private residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, announced early Saturday the launch of this operation, whose objective is to overthrow the Iranian regime, despite the fact that Washington and Tehran were holding negotiations for a new nuclear pact.

The US president, who campaigned in 2024 on a promise to keep the United States away from foreign wars, acknowledged in his announcement that there could be casualties of “brave American heroes.”

The Democratic opposition denounces not having been previously informed of the attack and accuses the government of having started a covert war without the authorization of Congress, which has the power to approve a war intervention abroad.