Trump says yet to make decision on Iran deal, but if “it all works out,” hopes to meet new supreme leader

President Trump has told the New York Post that he has yet to make a decision on a potential agreement to extend the current, fragile U.S. ceasefire with Iran, but that he hopes one day to meet the Islamic Republic’s new supreme leader, “depending on how it all works out.”

“I would like to meet him, and we probably will meet at some point, depending on how it all works out,” Mr. Trump told the Post’s “Pod Force One.”

“We’re working on a deal and if that happens, fine, if it doesn’t happen, that’s okay too. We’ll do it the other way,” Mr. Trump said, adding that he still needed to “make a determination: Do we sign a deal or do we do it the other way, and the other way is not nice.”

Mr. Trump said Friday that he was gathering his Cabinet at the White House to make a “final determination” on a potential agreement with Iran, but then officials said revisions to the draft had been sent back to Tehran. Iran, this week, has said it suspended indirect negotiations with the U.S. days ago, but Mr. Trump insisted Tuesday that dialogue was ongoing.

Asked what handling the standoff with Iran “the other way” would achieve, Mr. Trump told the Post’s podcast: “It would be over. There wouldn’t be any bullshit, there wouldn’t be any talking, there wouldn’t be any delays. But I’d rather do it the nice way from a humanitarian standpoint.”