{"id":93691,"date":"2026-05-23T02:43:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T02:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/flashback-march-3-trump-says-u-s-strikes-killed-iranians-he-hoped-to-negotiate-with-most-of-the-people-we-had-in-mind-are-dead\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T02:43:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T02:43:02","slug":"flashback-march-3-trump-says-u-s-strikes-killed-iranians-he-hoped-to-negotiate-with-most-of-the-people-we-had-in-mind-are-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/flashback-march-3-trump-says-u-s-strikes-killed-iranians-he-hoped-to-negotiate-with-most-of-the-people-we-had-in-mind-are-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"FLASHBACK, March 3 | Trump Says U.S. Strikes Killed Iranians He Hoped To Negotiate With: &#8220;Most Of The People We Had In Mind Are Dead&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> President Trump took questions from reporters while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/03\/03\/full_video_president_trump_takes_questions_on__operation_epic_fury.html\">hosting the German Chancellor at the White House on March 3<\/a>, a few days after the beginning of &#8220;Operation Epic Fury.&#8221;  President Trump revealed that the people inside the Iranian government he planned to negotiate with after the first round of strikes have apparently been killed.   &#8220;Most of the people we had in mind are dead,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;We had some in mind from that group that is dead.&#8221;  The New York Times reported this week that one of those people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/05\/22\/sachs_usisraeli_plan_for_iran_failed_on_day_one_nyt_ahmadinejad_reporting_confirms_trump_has_already_told_us.html\">could have been former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad<\/a>.  &#8220;And now we had another group. They may be dead also, based on reports,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;So, I guess we&#8217;ll have a third wave. Pretty soon we&#8217;re not gonna know anybody.&#8221;  He added, referring to the quick strike on Venezuela in January: &#8220;I mean, Venezuela was so incredible because we did the attack and we kept the government totally intact.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/03\/03\/flashback_march_3__trump_says_us_strikes_killed_iranians_he_hoped_to_negotiate_with_most_of_the_people_we_had_in_mind_are_dead.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump took questions from reporters while hosting the German Chancellor at the White House on March 3, a few days after the beginning of &#8220;Operation Epic Fury.&#8221; President Trump revealed that the people inside the Iranian government he planned to negotiate with after the first round of strikes have apparently been killed. &#8220;Most of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10195,303,21676,19616,14992,1689,3828,517,90,321,194,6170,5395,542],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}