Asked at a White House news conference if he would be prepared to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, US president says ‘I’d meet with anybody’, adding he’s ‘ready to meet any time that they want to’; overture comes days after he posted a fiery tweet warning Rouhani of dire consequences if he threatened the US.
On July 22, Trump said in a tweet directed at Rouhani: “Never, ever threaten the United States again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before. We are no longer a country that will stand for your demented words of violence & death. Be cautious!”