Trump threatens a “stronger” offensive if the deal with Iran fails and announces that troops will continue to be deployed in the region
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, warned in the early hours of this Thursday that he will keep military forces deployed around Iran until the agreement reached is fully complied with and has threatened to launch a “bigger and stronger” offensive in case of non-compliance, while ensuring that the Strait of Hormuz will remain open and that Tehran will not develop nuclear weapons.
In a message published in his Truth Social, Trump emphasizes that “all US ships, aircraft and military personnel, along with ammunition and weapons, will remain in Iran and its surroundings” until “the actual agreement reached is fully fulfilled”, insisting that the deployment responds to the need to ensure stability in the area.
Trump warns that if the pact is not respected, “the battle will begin, bigger, better and stronger than ever,” although he considers this scenario “very unlikely,” and emphasizes that “there will be no nuclear weapons” and that the Strait of Hormuz “will remain open and safe.”
In the same message, the president assures that the US Armed Forces are “preparing and resting” while waiting for “their next conquest.”
Previously, Trump had said that there is only a set of points accepted by his country in the ceasefire agreed with Iran and that they will be those discussed during the negotiations in the next two weeks, although he did not clarify at the moment what they consist of. “There is a single set of significant ‘points’ that are acceptable to the United States, and we will discuss them behind closed doors during these negotiations,” the president wrote in Truth Social.
It is known that Iran has proposed a ten-point plan to negotiate, including the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the withdrawal of United States combat forces deployed in the region, the lifting of all sanctions against Iran and that all of the above be included in a binding resolution of the UN Security Council.
Iran and the United States agreed on Tuesday to a two-week truce conditional on the reopening of the strategic Strait of Hormuz and plan to meet at the end of the week in Islamabad to negotiate an end to the conflict. (Efe)
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