I=7 Trump said the U.S. military will be leaving Iran in “two or three weeks"
“We leave because there’s no reason for us to do this,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “We’ll be leaving very soon.”
“No, they don’t have to make a deal with me when we feel that they are, for a long period of time, put into the Stone Ages, and they won’t be able to come up with a nuclear weapon,” he said. “Then we’ll leave whether we have a deal or not. It’s irrelevant now. It’s possible that we’ll have a deal because they want to make a deal.”
I=7 Trump vowed to hit Iran “extremely hard” in the coming weeks, adding he expects the war to last another two to three weeks
“Shortly, very shortly, we’re going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We’re going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong. In the meantime, discussions are ongoing,” he said.
President Trump said Iran war is ‘very close to being over’
“I think it’s close to over, yeah. I view it as very close to being over,” Trump told FOX Business anchor Maria Bartiromo in an interview.
“If I pulled up stakes right now, it would take them 20 years to rebuild that country. And we’re not finished,” he said. “We’ll see what happens. I think they want to make a deal very badly.”
I=8 Iran declares Strait of Hormuz is open after Israel-Lebanon declared a ceasefire
“In line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, the passage for all commercial vessels through Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open for the remaining period of ceasefire,” Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said in a social media post.
I=7 Trump told reporters he has no intentions of rushing to make a deal with Iran
“So, I’ve done that within the period of time that I mentioned, but I don’t want to rush myself. You know because every story says, ‘Oh, Trump is under time pressure.’ I’m not, no no. You know who’s under time pressure? They are. Because if they don’t get their oil moving, their whole oil infrastructure’s going to explode.”
I=8 Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi expected in Pakistan for a second round of talks aimed at ending Iran’s conflict with the U.S.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi expected in Pakistan tonight for a second round of talks aimed at ending Iran’s conflict with the U.S., a Pakistani official involved in the matter told MS NOW.
Another report said President Trump is sending envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Pakistan to participate in talks with Araghchi.
