President Donald Trump vowed to retaliate against Iran on Sunday if it does not strike a peace deal with the United States soon.
“For Iran, the Clock is Ticking, and they better get moving, FAST, or there won’t be anything left of them. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE! President DJT,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
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The U.S. and Iran have been in on-and-off peace talks to seek an off-ramp to the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran for over five weeks following the declaration of a ceasefire on April 8. The talks have been brokered by Pakistan but have not resulted in any lasting peace.
Iran responded to a U.S. peace proposal last Sunday, but Trump called the response “totally unacceptable,” as negotiations then continued without the two sides reaching a deal.
Trump’s Sunday Truth Social post calling for Iran to “get moving” on peace comes hours after the United Arab Emirates reported a drone strike on its only power plant. Though the UAE did not blame Iran or any country for the strike, it marks another test for the ceasefire in the region. The UAE had announced in early May that it had to intercept 15 Iranian missiles and four Iranian drones.
Trump’s threat to Iran that “there won’t be anything left of them” if the regime does not act on a peace deal is not the President’s first existential threat to the country. In April, Trump had posted that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if the Iranian regime did not strike a ceasefire deal with the U.S., which they ended up doing.
On Thursday night, Trump told Fox News’s Sean Hannity that Iran “can make a deal or they get annihilated. I don’t want to do that.”
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The coming week could be pivotal for the Iran war, particularly on the U.S. home front as Trump returns from his trip to China. Trump said this past week that he does not think “China wants Iran to have a nuclear weapon either” and told U.S. reporters that President Xi Jinping was “impressed” by the U.S.’s conduct in the war.
Trump told reporters on Friday that he would accept a 20-year moratorium on Iran’s nuclear program. This marks a shift, as the president has had the stance that Iran would have to drop its entire nuclear program for good.
