U.S. President Donald Trump said on the 17th (local time) about the U.S.-Iran nuclear talks scheduled to be held in Geneva that "I don't think they (the Iranians) would want the consequences if we can't reach a deal."
According to Reuters and others that day, Trump met with reporters aboard the presidential plane returning to the White House from Florida the previous day and said this while indicating that he, too, would be indirectly involved in the talks with Iran.
Recalling that the U.S. military bombed Iran's nuclear facilities in June last year, Trump said, "We were able to make a deal instead of sending bombers to destroy their nuclear potential." He also said, "I hope they are more reasonable," and "They want a deal."
The United States and Iran resumed nuclear talks on the 6th in Oman. It was the first face-to-face meeting between the two countries over the nuclear issue in eight months since talks were suspended after Israel and the United States struck Iran's nuclear facilities last year.