Speaking at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, Trump stopped short of ending negotiations with Iran, but said: “I’ll speak to our negotiators. They want to negotiate they’re good people — Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner — but they have to come back to me, and as far as I’m concerned it’s just a waste of time dealing with them.”
“They’re scum. They’re sick people. They’re led by sick people. They’re vicious, violent people, and if they had a nuclear weapon they’d use it.”US SAYS IT DESTROYED OVER 60 IRANIAN BOATS AFTER COMMERCIAL SHIPS TARGETED IN STRAIT OF HORMUZIran targeted U.S. military sites in the Gulf on Wednesday after the U.S. responded to Iranian attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz and reinstated sanctions on its oil sales.On Tuesday, CENTCOM announced it hit more than 80 targets, including more than 60 Iranian small boats.“U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces completed a new round of offensive strikes against Iran, July 7, hitting over 80 targets with precision munitions as an immediate response to Iran’s latest attacks on commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz,” CENTCOM said in a statement Tuesday night.A Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. and Iran had set out a 60-day period for the two countries to finalize a larger agreement that would include Iran’s nuclear program, a deadline that will expire in the middle of August.But that MOU has been repeatedly undermined by Iranian actions, with Tuesdays strikes resulting in Trump’s response.
