Iranian leaders want to talk, Trump tells Atlantic magazine

WASHINGTON, March 1 (Reuters) - ‌U.S. President Donald ​Trump ​said on Sunday that Iran's new leadership wants to talk to him and that ‌he has agreed, according to an interview with ⁠the Atlantic magazine.

"They want to talk, and I have agreed ‌to talk, so I will ‌be talking to them. They should have done it sooner. They should have given what was very ​practical and easy to do sooner. They waited too long," Trump said in the interview from ⁠his Florida residence.

Trump did not specify who he would be speaking with ​or say whether it would occur on Sunday or Monday.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said a ​leadership council composed of himself, ‌the judiciary head and a member of the powerful Guardians Council had temporarily assumed ⁠the duties of supreme leader following the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Trump said some of the people who were involved ⁠in recent talks with the U.S. are no longer alive.

"Most ​of those people are gone. Some of the people we were dealing with are gone, because that was a big - that ‌was a big hit," he was quoted as saying in the interview with Atlantic ‌staff writer Michael Scherer. "They should have done it sooner, ⁠Michael. They could have ‌made a deal. ​They should've done it sooner. They played too cute."

(Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Paul ‌Simao)

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