He said this on CBS News.
“We are ready to sit at the negotiating table and discuss, without any preconditions, a new way forward, a series of steps,” Esper said, noting that these steps will help Iran become better.
He noted that the United States is “more secure” after the elimination of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps General Kassem Suleimani, who “had the blood of hundreds of US troops on his hands”.
According to Esper, the operation went without loss to the United States.
Earlier media reported that US Permanent Representative to the UN Kelly Kraft sent a letter to the Organization’s Security Council stating Washington’s readiness for negotiations with Tehran without preconditions.
As a result of a U.S. special operation on January 3, Iranian General Suleymani was killed in Baghdad.
The response to the murder was a missile attack by Iran on the night of January 8 of two American bases in Iraq.