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Trump says US to reopen negotiations with Iran ‘maybe at some point’
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Trump says US to reopen negotiations with Iran ‘maybe at some point’

President Donald Trump has said that the US might resume talks with Iran “maybe at some point” in the future.

“Right now the situation is so good,” Trump told reporters, adding that the US demands for renewed talks are “so simple: no nuclear weapon”.

“Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and they won’t,” he added. Trump stated that Iran would “use it” if it had a nuclear weapon, stressing that the US is “not going to let them”.

https://aje.news/uli7jj?update=4867043

u/Squifwarden — 9 hours ago
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Bessent says US to apply measures never seen on Iran

Aug 13 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Thursday that the United States is going to apply measures that have "never been seen" on Iran.

"Watch this space for more announcements coming next week because we are going to apply measures like have never been seen in the history of economic isolation on a country," Bessent said in an interview on on Newsmax's "Rob Schmitt Tonight" program.

"It will be a combination of economic isolation like the world has never seen before, and the continued blockade in the Strait of Hormuz that will keep anything from going in or out of the Iranian ports," Bessent said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/bessent-says-us-apply-measures-never-seen-iran-2026-08-13/

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u/Squifwarden — 6 days ago
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Trump warns Iran faces ‘hard hit’ if talks fail and Strait of Hormuz remains closed

US president’s comments to Fox News.

He said:

  • “Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. They already can’t, but it’s going to be formal.”
  • “The strait [of Hormuz] is going to be open very soon, or they’re going to get hit very hard, and then the strait is going to be open.”
  • “We were going to have a tremendous attack, the biggest since World War II, and they called me and said, very politely, ‘Please can we talk? Can we talk?’ And I said, ‘Yes, we can talk. Let’s get it done. Finally, let’s get it done.'”
  • “If they back out again, they’re going to get hit really hard; they know that; they understand that.”
  • “They wouldn’t be talking if we weren’t doing what we’re doing. We hit them very, very hard, but the hard hit is yet to come, and hopefully, we won’t have to use it. I hope we won’t.”

Source: https://aje.news/vv0n8h?update=4830182

u/Squifwarden — 15 days ago