Trump threatens to bomb Iran if leaders do not make nuclear deal with US

On Sunday, US President Donald Trump threatened to bomb Iran and impose secondary tariffs if the sponsor of terrorism does not come to an agreement with the White House over its nuclear program.

Last week, Tehran rejected direct negotiations with the Trump administration.

Trump told NBC in an interview, “If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing. It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before.” He added, “There’s a chance that if they don’t make a deal, that I will do secondary tariffs on them like I did four years ago.”
A few days earlier, Trump said if the rogue state refused to negotiate a new nuclear agreement, “bad, bad things are going to happen to Iran.”

According to The Times of Israel, Tehran’s foreign minister sent a response through Oman to Trump, saying its policy was not to engage in direct negotiations with the US while under its pressure campaign and military threats.

On Sunday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said, “Direct negotiations [with the US] have been rejected, but Iran has always been involved in indirect negotiations, and now too, the Supreme Leader [Ayatollah Ali Khamenei] has emphasized that indirect negotiations can still continue.”

During the interview with NBC, Trump also threatened secondary tariffs on Russia as well as Iran, similar to those he authorized last week on buyers of Venezuelan oil.

During his first term, Trump withdrew the US from a 2015 deal with Iran that was supposed to restrict Tehran’s nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief. However, Iran was repeatedly accused of violating the agreement. Trump has also reimposed US sanctions against Iran.

Iran, which has pledged to destroy Israel and the US, has twice in the past year fired large barrages of missiles and drones at the Jewish state and has continued to support its terror proxies, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis in Yemen.