Trump Says Talks With Iran Were Good, but There’s More Work to Do

President Trump said on Friday that talks between Iran and the United States had gone well and would continue early next week, in comments that mirrored those of Iran’s foreign minister, who told state media that the negotiations were off to a “good start.”

Mr. Trump, speaking to reporters on Air Force One as he headed to Palm Beach, Fla., said the administration was in “no rush” to make a deal with Iran. Using his actions in Venezuela as an example, he said, “We waited around for a while.”

Iran wants “to make a deal, as they should want to make a deal,” Mr. Trump said, adding that if the country did not reach an agreement the “consequences would be steep.” Describing the terms of a potential deal, Mr. Trump said Iran would have to agree to “no nuclear weapons.”

The foreign minister of Iran, Abbas Araghchi, said earlier on Friday that the talks, which took place in Oman, had been “exclusively nuclear.”

Iran’s nuclear program had been expected to be part of the discussions. But before the talks began, American officials had said that they also needed to include Iran’s ballistic missiles and its support for militant groups across the Middle East.

Mr. Araghchi, seemed to rule that out. “We are not discussing any other issues with the Americans,” he told Iran’s official news agency, IRNA.

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