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DUBAI: US President Donald Trump on Monday demanded Iran pay compensation for the deaths of people he said it had killed in wars, attacks and protests, raising the rhetorical stakes with Tehran as hopes faded for an imminent deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump said he was responding to Iran’s earlier call for Washington to meet conditions, including recompensing Tehran for the damage caused in the more than five months since the US and Israel launched strikes on its territory.
“I am likewise demanding compensation from Iran, for all of the people that they have killed and gravely wounded with their roadside bombs and many conflicts, for which they are famous,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social service.
The abrupt new US demand was not mentioned in any previous talks. Trump said it would be included in all future negotiations with Iran, and would include calls for payments to families of hundreds of thousands of protesters he said Iran had killed.
