Tommy Piggott

The president has been very clear he wants to see a good deal here.

And the president describing over the weekend that we are close to a circumstance, in his belief, of having a deal.

But we're not going to have a deal that doesn't address some of the important parameters the president has outlined from the beginning.

Well, I think two things here.

First are the objectives laid out by Operation Epic Fury, which was the decimation of their military, their Air Force, their Navy capacity, the ballistic missile capacity.

We saw those objectives largely be fulfilled.

So that's Operation Epic Fury already making the world safer.

I think then in the second context is that in this context when these conversations are happening,

is that President Trump holds all of the cards.

We see that blockade of Iranian ships and ports.

We see economic fury.

We see the decisive outcomes from Operation Epic Fury.

And that is the context in which this is happening.

So fundamentally, President Trump going to see this objective be fulfilled.

We're going to take actions necessary to defend U.S.

troops, U.S.

interests.

And then fundamentally, President Trump holds all of the cards in this circumstance to make a good deal for the American people and see that objective be fulfilled.

Tommy, to that point, I think... And folks...

State Department spokesperson Tommy Piggott says the U.S.