President Donald Trump indicated Tuesday that Iran’s leadership has signaled it is willing to make a deal with the United States.
“They’re going to make a deal,” Trump said in a video posted to X. “They did something yesterday that was amazing.”
“They gave us a present, and the present arrived today. It was a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of money,” Trump said.
Trump said the details would stay under wraps.
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. President Trump just said Iran’s leaders sent him a “present” as part of proving who is really in control
The present, related to oil and gas, arrived today, worth a “tremendous amount of money”
“They gave us a present, and the present arrived today. It was a… pic.twitter.com/U71lqnbEJr
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 24, 2026
“I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize,” he said.
“They gave it to us, and they said they were going to give it, so that meant one thing to me — we’re dealing with the right people.”
Asked if the present was related to Iran’s nuclear program, Trump replied, ” It was oil and gas-related, and it was a very nice thing they did. But what it showed me is that we’re dealing with the right people, ’cause, you know, you don’t know,” he said.
“The leadership was killed, all gone; Khamenei, all gone,” Trump said, noting that former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei, who was selected to follow his father, was “racked up pretty good.”
Asked whether the present was linked to the Strait of Hormuz, which has been blocked since the war with Iran started, Trump said it was.
“It was related to the flow” of oil and the strait, he said, according to The Hill.
Behnam Ben Taleblu, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington, D.C., think tank, said that turmoil within Iran has given the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps greater control over the government, according to Fox News.
“No doubt both the 12-Day war and this current conflict have trimmed the commanding heights of the Islamic Republic’s political and military leadership,” he said. “But it has also expedited the trend lines inherent in Iranian politics, which is the dominance of the security forces and the ascendance of the IRGC.”
“Yes, there is more IRGC control over the state than ever before, but the state is weaker than ever before and more of a national security rump state than ever before,” he said.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: There won’t be any nuclear weapons. Iran has agreed to that.
We’re in a good bargaining position. We’re way ahead of schedule and they have no navy, air force, or missile protection. Most of their launches we’ve killed. pic.twitter.com/FbwVcC6MND
— Department of State (@StateDept) March 24, 2026
“It shouldn’t particularly preoccupy Washington, who is and isn’t offering negotiations,” Ben Taleblu said.
“The preeminent preoccupation of Washington has to be working toward a military win at a political win, and that does not come by working with the IRGC, but actually beating them on the battlefield and supporting the forces most arrayed against them in Iran, which are the Iranian people,” he said.
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