New Delhi: US President Donald Trump, who along with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is the decision-maker behind the US-Israel strikes on Iran, has claimed that Iranian leaders want to talk – something that Tehran has entirely denied.A senior White House official told Associated Press that “new potential leadership” in Iran has suggested they are open for talks with the US. The official, speaking to the news agency on condition of anonymity to discuss internal administration deliberations, said President Donald Trump says he is “eventually” willing to talk, but for now the military operation “continues unabated.”To The Atlantic magazine, Trump appeared to be making a straight claim.“They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them,” he said, but did not add when those talks might start. “They should have done it sooner. They should have given what was very practical and easy to do sooner. They waited too long.”To the British tabloid Daily Mail, Trump said he has discussed a timeline for the attacks on Iran.“We figured it will be four weeks or so,” Trump said. “It’s always been about a four-week process, so, as strong as it is — it’s a big country – it’ll take four weeks, or less.”But the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani denied today these claims that Tehran had sought to restart negotiations with Washington.In a simple post on X, Larijani addressed reports on US claims that Tehran had been keen to discuss the future.“We will not negotiate with the US,” he said in a quote-tweet to a report by Al Jazeera, quoting The Wall Street Journal that claimed Larijani attempted to resume negotiations with Washington through Oman.“He is now worried about further losses of American soldiers. With his own delusions, he has transformed the slogan ‘America First’ into ‘Israel First’ and sacrificed American troops for Israel’s lust for power,” Larjani said in a different post.Iranian leaders have it that over 200 people have died in the Israel-US strikes so far. Iran’s retaliatory strikes have led the violence outside of the borders of the country.