New Delhi, July 4 -- Amid stalled US-Iran talks, President Donald Trump said Washington gave Iran "a week off" for late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's funeral processions. He said Tehran was eager to settle with the US after the recent war.

Speaking at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota during celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of US independence, Trump claimed that US pressure had "broken the spirit" of the Iranian leadership, leaving them "dying to settle."

Trump asserted that the US had granted a temporary suspension of hostilities for humanitarian reasons, stating that "we are nice people."

"We knocked the hell out of Iran. They're dying to settle. They want to settle so badly. We gave them a week off for a funeral, because we'r...