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Trump: talks with Iran begin Monday

August 3, 2026

President Trump announced that US negotiators sit down with Iran on Monday, a diplomatic turn that follows his decision to pause further strikes.

CNBC reports that President Trump said negotiations with Iran begin Monday after he held off on new strikes, an announcement NBC News corroborates. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday, Trump said: "Now what we're doing is we're talking to them in the form of a negotiation. It begins tomorrow afternoon," while declining to name the venue or participants. Reuters carries the same account and notes that Trump set no deadline for a deal; Al Jazeera pairs the announcement with Tehran pressing Washington to keep to the existing memorandum of understanding.

CNBC also reports, with NBC News corroborating, that Kuwait said Iranian forces launched a wave of drones into its airspace on Saturday, aimed at infrastructure in the country's north, and that Kuwaiti forces destroyed multiple aircraft. That backdrop is the account's tension: talks begin while the shooting has not fully stopped.

What is settled is the announcement itself and its terms as Trump stated them. The venue, the participants and any deadline remain unstated, and the account rests on the principal's own words rather than any negotiating record.

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The venue and participants for Monday's talks are unnamed, and no outlet records Tehran confirming its side of the schedule.

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