President Donald Trump told Fox News on Sunday that 48 leaders have been killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran.

“It’s moving along. It’s moving along rapidly. This has been this way for 47 years,” he was quoted as saying in an interview with Fox News. “It’s moving along rapidly. Nobody can believe the success we’re having, 48 leaders are gone in one shot. And it’s moving along rapidly.”

Trump also told CNBC on Sunday that U.S. military operations against Iran are “ahead of schedule.”

Trump: Iranians Want to Talk

In addition, Trump said on Sunday that Iran’s new leadership wants to talk to him and that he has agreed, according to an interview with the Atlantic magazine.

“They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them. They should have done it sooner. They should have given what was very practical and easy to do sooner. They waited too long,” Trump said in the interview from his Florida residence.

Trump did not specify who he would be speaking with or say whether it would occur on Sunday or Monday.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said a leadership council composed of himself, the judiciary head and a member of the powerful Guardians Council had temporarily assumed the duties of supreme leader following the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Trump said some of the people who were involved in recent talks with the U.S. are no longer alive.