US President Donald Trump has said Iran has been asking if American sanctions can be lifted and that he is open to hearing such requests, whilst extending the national emergency status against Iran for another year, Hamshahri Online reported on November 7.

"Iran has been asking if the sanctions could be lifted. Iran has got very heavy US sanctions, and it makes it really hard for them to do what they'd like to be able to do. And I'm open to hearing that, and we'll see what happens, but I would be open to it," Trump told reporters at the White House, according to Reuters.

The comments came as Trump extended the national emergency status against Iran, which includes unilateral sanctions, for another year. The decision was announced in a statement published on the Federal Register, the US government's official documents system.

The statement said relations with Iran have not yet been normalised and the process of implementing bilateral agreements dated January 19, 1981, continues. These agreements refer to the Algiers Accords between Iran and the United States, which led to the release of American diplomats who were held in Tehran for more than a year after the 1979 revolution.

Trump stated in the declaration that the state of emergency declared on November 14, 1979, and the measures taken to deal with it will remain in place after November 14, 2025. "I am extending the national emergency status against Iran for another year," he said.

On November 14, 1979, Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, signed Executive Order 12170 in response to the "hostage-taking of American diplomats" in Tehran. The US Treasury Department was instructed to block all official Iranian assets in the United States, including bank accounts in America and their foreign branches and affiliated companies.

This action marked the beginning of the first economic sanctions against Iran. On April 7, 1980, Carter severed diplomatic relations with Tehran and banned exports of all American goods to Iran, including food and medicine. Imports of Iranian goods to America and travel of American citizens to Iran were also prohibited.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on November 4 that cooperation between Iran and the United States is not possible as long as Washington continues to support Israel, maintain military bases and interfere in the Middle East.

Esmail Baghaei, spokesman for Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, wrote on his X account on November 7 that from the beginning it was clear the United States participated in Israel's aggression against Iran. He said Trump's admission that "I was completely responsible for it" lifted the veil on his foreign minister's lie and effectively admitted that Washington had directed the operation from the start.