On Iran, Trump officials say the US mission is 'that simple.' It depends who's doing the talking
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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, March 3, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)FILE - Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, speaks next to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the NATO summit of heads of state and government in The Hague, Netherlands, June 25, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool Photo via AP, file)FILE - Boys stand on a launcher of an Iranian domestically-built missile during an annual rally marking 1979 Islamic Revolution at the Azadi (Freedom) sq. in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, file)FILE - The Iranian national flag flies during a special session of an IAEA Board of Governors meeting in Vienna, Austria, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Heinz-Peter Bader, file)FILE - A Qadr H long-range ballistic surface-to-surface missile is fired by Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard during a maneuver in an undisclosed location in Iran, March 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Omid Vahabzadeh, File)
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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, March 3, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)