President Donald Trump warned Iran on Wednesday that the United States will launch a huge attack against the country if it does not negotiate a nuclear weapons deal swiftly. 

The president said the Pentagon is preparing to launch a “massive” military operation against Iran with a naval fleet comparable to the one used earlier this month in Venezuela, when special forces toppled former dictator Nicolas Maduro. Trump said that such an attack would be “far worse” than the strikes the U.S. carried out against Iran last summer, when “Operation Midnight Hammer” sought to eradicate the country’s nuclear facilities.