President Donald Trump said Friday he has “dropped all work on sanction relief” for Iran, slamming Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei for condemning the United States and falsely claiming victory over Israel in an “angry, hostile, and unhappy” public address.
“During the last few days, I was working on the possible removal of sanctions, and other things, which would have given a much better chance to Iran at a full, fast, and complete recovery,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “The sanctions are BITING! But no, instead I get hit with a statement of anger, hatred, and disgust, and immediately dropped all work on sanction relief, and more.”
“Iran has to get back into the World Order flow, or things will only get worse for them,” Trump went on. “They are always so angry, hostile, and unhappy, and look at what it has gotten them—A burned out, blown up Country, with no future, a decimated Military, a horrible Economy, and DEATH all around them. They have no hope, and it will only get worse!”
Trump imposed sanctions targeting Iran’s military networks, oil exports, and shipping industry throughout both of his terms, as part of his “maximum pressure” campaign aimed at dismantling the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. Iranian state-controlled media in early June lashed out at the Trump administration’s latest round of sanctions, accusing Trump of being insufficiently committed to a nuclear deal.
Trump’s latest remarks come a day after Khamenei claimed in his first public comments since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Iran that the Islamic Republic “delivered a heavy slap to the U.S.’s face” and that the United States “achieved nothing.” Khamenei in his speech also falsely declared victory over Israel.
U.S. and Israeli intelligence officials have confirmed that the American strike last Saturday dealt a crippling blow to Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission assessed Iran’s Fordow site as “inoperable” and said the strike “set back Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years.” A CIA report supported that view, with Director John Ratcliffe saying Iran’s nuclear program is “severely damaged.”
Trump in his Truth Social post said that Khamenei’s “Country was decimated, his three evil Nuclear Sites were OBLITERATED, and I knew EXACTLY where he was sheltered.” The president said he halted an Israeli strike on Tehran and “would not let Israel, or the U.S. Armed Forces, by far the Greatest and Most Powerful in the World, terminate [Khamenei’s] life.”
“I wish the leadership of Iran would realize that you often get more with HONEY than you do with VINEGAR,” Trump wrote.
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